North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

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Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, British colonial governor and philhellene.

From the description of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford manuscript material : 1 item, 1821 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 262691699

Governor of Ceylon, 1798-1805.

From the description of Letters, 1799 October 26 - 1800 September 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122589667

From the description of Letters, 1804 Sept. 20 - Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122476432

Son of Prime Minister Lord North. Colonial governor, university chancellor, linguist and collector of books and manuscripts. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Spent much of his early life in Southern Europe, because of ill health. Received into the Orthodox Church, 1792. Created Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in 1793. Member of Parliament for Banbury, 1792-1794. Secretary to Sir Gilbert Elliot in Corsica, 1795. First British Governor of Ceylon, 1798-1805. Succeeded to the title fifth Earl of Guilford, 1817. Made director of education in the Ionian Islands, 1820. Founded the Ionian Academy at Corfu in 1824.

Title: 5th Earl of Guilford

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creatorOf Blondet, André. André Blondet agreement, 1552. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MARIO COMPAGNONI MAREFOSCHI: Relazione of Piperno; 1742. Italian. Signed. Account of the visitation of Piperno (now Priverno) in the diocese of Terracina, Sezze and Priverno (near Latina) by Monsignor Marefoschi. He had been appointed referendary of ... British Library
creatorOf "REGISTRO di lettere scritte à piu persone di Mons, [Ridolfo Pio, Cardinal da Carpi] il Vescouo di Faenza, nuntio in Francia," 1535-1537. The majority of the letters are addressed to Ambrogio [di Ricalcati], papal secretary and prothonotary. For anot..., 1535-1537 British Library
creatorOf Pius III, Pope, ca. 1440-1503. Pope Pius III bull, 1503. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf COLLECTION RELATING TO GENOA; 12th cent.-1634. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies put together around 1634 by Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino (circa 1558-1635), Genoese historian and man of letters, co-founder, secretary and later Principal (1590) of... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF 87 AVVISI TO THE PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FROM FRANCE; 1624-1627. Italian, Latin, and French. Partly copies, partly in cipher. Imperfect. The avvisi list miscellaneous news (wars and politics, trade, gossip and natural events) and were ... British Library
creatorOf NORTH (SHEFFIELD PARK) PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 237). circa 1779-1810. 1. ff. 1-114. Correspondence of Anne, Dowager Countess of Guilford; 1792-1797, n.d. 2. ff. 115-118. Miscellaneous papers; 1805, 1810. 3. ff. 119-219. Papers, with a few letters, of ..., 1774-1810 British Library
creatorOf UNIVERSAL HISTORY; late 17th cent. French and Latin. Universal history from Creation to the late 17th cent., inc. ‘L’histoire est une narration veritable et iuditieuse’, expl. (f. 123v) ‘3o Eleonore Marie de Neubourg née [date cancelled and illegible... British Library
creatorOf GIAMPIETRO MAFFEI: Annals of Gregory XIII; 1572-1585. Italian. Copies. Annals of the papacy of Gregory XIII (1572-1585), written by the Jesuit historian Giampietro Maffei of Bergamo (1535-1603), and completed, revised and corrected after his death by... British Library
referencedIn Vol. XXV (ff. 260). 8 Jan. 1817-1819.includes:ff. 2, 102, 118, 165, 166, 260 Lavall Nugent, Count Nugent; Austrian Field-Marshal 1849: Letters to Sir W. A'Court: 1817-1821.f. 3 Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily; afterwards Ferdinand I of the Two ... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS relating to ecclesiastical affairs of the Papacy in the Grisons (Rhaetia), Piedmont, Flanders, Denmark, and territories of the Holy Roman Empire; circa 1750-1770. Italian and Latin. Archival copies and an anonymous draft (ff. 126-127v). A coll... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI of Rome; 1648-1654. Italian. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Rome during the papacy of Innocent X (1644-1655). The authors are the Venetian ambassadors Giovanni Giustinian (art. 1, ff. 2-110), and Alvise di Nicolò Contarini (art. ... British Library
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creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters, manifestos, proclamations, and treaties relating to the Papacy, England, Spain and the German Empire, France, Turkey, Cyprus, the Hospitaller Order and the Knights of Malta, Urbino, Austria, Milan, and ... British Library
creatorOf PROJECT for the Recovery of the Treasury of the Roman See; circa 1768 (date on f. 87v). Italian. Anonymous Progetto to save the Treasury of the Apostolic Chamber from collapse after the disastrous mandate of General Treasurer Cardinal Saverio Canale ... British Library
creatorOf LUIGI PARDINI: Poems dedicated to Giuseppe Stefano Zambelli de Turribus; 1791. Italian and Latin. Probably autograph. Collection of poems in various metres dedicated to Giuseppe Stefano Zambelli de Turribus, papal protonotary and referendary in Narni... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM NICHOLAS V TO INNOCENT IX, ADDING CLEMENT V, URBAN VI, LEO XI, AND URBAN VIII, AND OMITTING PIUS V AND GREGORY XIII; 1305-1623. Italian and Latin. Copies. Contemporary tables of contents (f. 1-1v.); ff. 7v, 23v, 121, 166, 1... British Library
creatorOf Chronicle of Venice (703-1457); late 15th cent. Italian. The chronicle relates the history of Venice from the election of the first doge, Poluzio [Paoluccio], in 703 to the death of Francesco Foscari following his deposition as doge and the election ... British Library
creatorOf ALFONSO DE PALENCIA: Gesta Hispaniensia, Decas Prima; circa 1477. Latin. Copy, circa 1570. The first Decade of the Gesta Hispaniensa written by Alfonso de Palencia (1423-1492), the Spanish humanist, historian, lexicographer, translator, copyist, and ... British Library
creatorOf Vol. II, ff. ii + 407, xvii cent.Bookplates: North (Frederick), 5th Earl of Guilford: 19th cent.Alexander VII; Pope: Life of: 17th cent.: Ital.Sforza Pallavieino, Cardinal: Life of Pope Alexander VII by: 17th cent.: Ital.includes:f. 402 Alexander V..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters, manifesto, and peace treaties relating to the Papacy, Spain, Malta, England, France, the Council of Trent, Austria, Venice, the German Empire, Turkey, and Scotland; circa 1458-1570. Latin and Italian. C... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI GUIDICCIONI, ALESSANDRO FARNESE: Letters; 1534-1540, 1549-1560. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. A collection of letters of Monsignor Giovanni Guidiccioni (art. 1-2, ff. 1-40) and of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese the younger (art. 3, ff. 41-180v), ... British Library
referencedIn George Henry Glasse correspondence, 1757-1808 (inclusive), 1778-1808 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM PIUS IV TO CLEMENT VIII AND OF THE REIGNS OF PIUS IV AND GREGORY XIII; 1559-1592. Italian. Copies. 'CXLVII' on spine. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '88' in pencil in top... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES, JULIUS II TO PAUL III, PAUL IV, PIUS IV, URBAN VIII TO ALEXANDER VII, INNOCENT XI TO CLEMENT XI, WITH PAUL II AND SIXTUS IV, NOT BOUND IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE, TOGETHER WITH GENERAL WORKS ON THE CONCLAVE; 1471-1700. Italian a... British Library
creatorOf Vol. I, ff. ); ff. ii + 592, xvii cent.Alexander VII; Pope: Life of: 17th cent.: Ital.Sforza Pallavieino, Cardinal: Life of Pope Alexander VII by: 17th cent.: Ital.Bookplates: North (Frederick), 5th Earl of Guilford: 19th cent., 17th century British Library
creatorOf RELATIONS BY VENETIAN AMBASSADORS and other papers relating to Savoy; 1573-1743. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Savoy by the Venetian Ambassadors Francesco da Molin (art. 1, ff. 1-16), Francesco Barbaro (art. 2, ff. 17-... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, wills and other papers relating to the history of the Church in Italy and Bavaria, and to the lives of Cardinals Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri, Reginald Pole, Alessandro Cesarini, and Flavio Chigi; circa 1542-1710. Italian ... British Library
creatorOf ANTONIO GRIMANI: Relazione of Rome; [1671]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome by Antonio Grimani, Venetian Ambassador at Rome from 1667 to 1671 during the papacies of Clement IX (1667-1669) and Clement X (1670-1676). Other copies in Add. 8399 (art... British Library
creatorOf A COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts mostly relating to the history of the Church; circa 1602-1704. Italian, Latin and Greek. Partly printed. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). Stamp (f. i) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri.... British Library
creatorOf The Ionian Academy, 1815-1827 British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, letters, treaties, papal instructions and investitures relating to the Papacy, Venice, Turkey, Siena, Tuscany, the Council of Trent, Aragon, Sardinia and Corsica, Sicily, Genoa, Portugal, Fra... British Library
creatorOf GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOK: Dispatches and letters of Niccolò Guidi del Bagno, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to France 25 June 1643 -Dec. 1656; 1655-1657. Italian and Latin. Copies. The dispatches are mainly addressed to the secretary of state Giulio Ro... British Library
creatorOf DISPATCHES to Francesco and Taddeo Barberini; 1643-1644. Italian. Copies. Register of dispatches from Perugia to Cardinal Nepote Francesco Barberini, Secretary of State of Pope Urban VIII Barberini (1623-1644), and to his brother Prince Taddeo Barber... British Library
creatorOf DECREES of the Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide; late 18th cent. Latin and Italian. Copy. Title (f. 1v) 'Decreta generalia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide ex actis originalibus eiusdem Sacrae Congregationis ad utiliorem commoditatem ... British Library
creatorOf FELICE CONTELORIO: De Praefecto Urbis Liber.... Rome. S.n. 1631. 2o. [10], 96 p. [missing pp. 32-34]; [5] leaves of plates. Latin. Printed, with many MS. amendments. A history of the origin and development of the ‘praefectura’ in Rome with a list of ... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, and letters relating mostly to the history of the Church, including prayers; circa 1483-1704. Italian and Latin. Copies and autograph drafts. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). 'D.V.5' and 'LXXVI' in... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI OF NAPLES AND TENEDOS, a Letter by Francis I of Modena, and the Will of the town of Valenza; 1656. Italian. Copies. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Relatione della Peste di Napoli fatta li 10 Giugno 1656'. This title is followed by three titles... British Library
creatorOf GASPARE ORIGO (?): Dispatches to Cardinal Savio Millini; 1689-1690. Italian. Collection of dispatches (unsigned) to Cardinal Savio Millini (or Mellini), Archbishop of Orvieto (1681-1694), sent from Rome to Orvieto by a member of his household. The na... British Library
creatorOf Simon Gliubavaz: Tract on the history of Dalmatia to 1387 and two letters; 1652, 1653. Italian and Latin. Copies, 18th cent. The tract is copied from an old MS. according to the note on f. 25: 'Avvertimento / Questo discorso di Simon Gliubavaz est... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI AND POLITICAL INSTRUCTIONS relating to Venice, the Papacy, and Spain; circa 1607-1643. Italian. Copies. Ownership note (front pastedown) 'Ex Libris / Marii Marefusci', partly cancelled; old shelfmark in black ink 'Cod. 192' in lower left co... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF POLITICAL TREATISES; late 15th-18th cent. Latin, Italian, and French. Partly autograph. Acquisition note (f. 17) relating to art. 4 (ff. 18-59v) 'Comperato nella vendita dei libri del Commendator Buondelmonti'. Armorial bookplate of 5th... British Library
creatorOf MARIA CASIMIRA, QUEEN OF POLAND: Letters to Clement XI; 1702-1709. French and Italian. Partly in cipher. Autograph. Collection of letters sent to Pope Clement XI (1700-1721) by Queen Marie Casimire Sobiesky (1641-1716), daughter of Henri de la Grange... British Library
creatorOf ROLANDO PALLAVICINO: Statutes of Busseto; 1429. Italian translation, 1542. Possibly imperfect. Statutes issued in 1429 by Marquis Rolando Pallavicino, called Il Magnifico, and translated from Latin into Italian by Gabriele Scoccabusa in 1542. The Sta... British Library
creatorOf GIUSEPPE BORGIA: Relazione of Naples; 1734. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the state of affairs of Naples in 1734. Naples had just been declared an independent kingdom with the election of Charles VII of Bourbon, son of Philip V of Spain. Title (f. 1) '... British Library
creatorOf SOCIETY OF JESUS: Petition to Pope Innocent XII over the Chinese Rites Controversy; 1698. Latin. Copy. The text is related to a dispute that arose in the second half of the 17th century between the Jesuits and other missionaries regarding the observa... British Library
creatorOf Mocenigo, Alvise I, 1507-1577. Alvise Mocenigo I notice, 1573. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf RANIERI ZEN: Relazione of Rome; [1623]. Italian. Copy. Ranieri Zen was the Venetian ambassador at Rome from 1621 to 1623 during the papacy of Popes Gregory XV (1621-1623) and Urban VIII (1623-1643). Other copies in Add. 8398 (art. 4, ff. 135-246), 10... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Antonio Maria d'Enea di Giacomo Todeschini. Antonio Maria d'Enea di Giacomo Todeschini Piccolomini transcript of emancipation, 1547. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, papers and letters relating to Genoa and the Netherlands; circa 1547-1625. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly imperfect. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LIV' in pencil in upper right corn... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS OF THE CONCLAVES for the elections of Leo XI, on 1 April 1605, and Paul V, on 16 May 1605; circa 1605. Italian. Copies. For a contemporary MS. with the same contents see Add. 48016 (Yelverton MS. 118). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of G... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS in the Churches and Cemeteries of Rome; 1657-1658 British Library
creatorOf ARCIADE [OR ARGIADE] EPIDAURIO P. A. [I.E. VINCENZO GREGORIO LAVAZZOLI]: Treatise on wedding rites in ancient Rome; late 18th cent. Italian. Copy. Imperfect. According to the list of arcadi given by A. M. Giorgetti Vichi in Gli arcadi dal 1690 al 180... British Library
creatorOf Galen. Galenou Peri philosophōn historias. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf BASSETTI LETTER-BOOK; circa 1688-1689. Italian. Copies, 1716? (the date of a letter on f. 91v, possibly a slip of the scribe disclosing the year of the copy). Register of letters of Abbot Apollonio Bassetti, Secretary of State to the Grand Duke of Tu... British Library
creatorOf ATLAS OF FORTIFICATION PLANS of Milan and other towns, castles and ports in Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, and Elba; late 17th cent. Italian. The volume includes 56 plans of the towns of Milan (with two plans showing its water system and castle), Pavia... British Library
referencedIn " CATALOGUE of the Manuscripts in the Earl of Guilford's Library, Saint James Place, 1824." Folio. [16,575.], 1824 British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, and letters relating to Spain, Venice, France, and Rome; circa 1546-1667. Italian. Copies. Pen-flourished initials on ff. 2, 3, 139, 140, 165, 166. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signat... British Library
creatorOf SIR WALTER RALEGH: notebook comprising an historical gazetteer, library-lists, etc.; circa 1606-1608. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin and French. This notebook dates from Ralegh's imprisonment in the Tower from Dec. 1603, when he was at work on his Hi..., approximately 1606-1608 British Library
creatorOf Vallaresso, Giacomo. Historia de origine et processu urbis usque ad Carolum magnum extracta de Mari historiarum : manuscript, 1478. Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf Cacciacomes family. Cacciacomes family conditions for peace, 1197?. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf COSTANTINO GARZONI: Relazione of Constantinople; 1574. Italian. Copy, 1592. Costantino Garzoni was a member of the Venetian Senate, who accompanied the ambassador Andrea Badoer and the new bailo Antonio Tiepolo to Constantinople. The MS. is entitled ... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of summaries of peace treaties, tracts, letters, memorials, papal instructions and accounts of conclaves relating to the Papacy, Siena, the German Empire, Florence, Savoy, and Naples; circa 1447-1569. Latin and Italian. Copie... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating largely to military and political events during the last fourteen years of the Thirty Years War in Italy and France; 1634-1648. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Contemporary index of contents headed 'Indi... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI AND DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS relating to the ambassadorial relationships between the papal court and Spain, Florence, France, and Venice, during the Thirty Years War and the papacies of Gregory XV, Urban VIII; circa 1621-1644. Italian and La... British Library
creatorOf HISTORICAL PAPERS RELATING TO ROME, THE PAPAL STATES, GRAND DUCHY OF TUSCANY, ETC; 1789-1792. Italian, Latin and French. Partly printed. Table of contents (ff. 1-2v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate.... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of letters, relazioni, tracts, papal instructions, and heads of agreement in treaties relating to the Carafa war during the papacy of Paul IV (1555-1559); circa 1536-1560. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. relates mai... British Library
referencedIn Vol. LXXX (ff. 388). Nov. 1817-14 Jan. 1818.includes:ff. 1, 24, 271 Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, GCB; Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope: Correspondence with the 2nd Earl of Liverpool: 1817, 1818. f. 5 Marshall William Carr Beresford,... British Library
creatorOf MILLINI LETTER-BOOK; 1726-1727. Italian and Spanish. Autograph. Collection of original letters sent by various correspondents to Mario Millini (or Mellini), auditor of the Sacred Roman Rota, in 1726. Title (f. 1) 'Monsignor Mario Millini Lettere di N... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome and Portugal; 1640-1669. Italian. Copies. The papers relate to the refusal of the Apostolic See to recognise the legitimacy of the Portuguese Kings and the consequent refusal of the Popes... British Library
creatorOf Treaties, correspondence and papers relating to the borders of Dalmatia; 1669-1672. Italian, partly translated from Turkish. Partly signed. The material relates to the two peace treaties concerning the borders of Dalmatia signed by Venice and the ... British Library
creatorOf TRACT OPPOSING THE ABSOLUTION OF HENRY IV OF FRANCE; circa 1593 -1595. Latin. Copy. Tract relating to King Henri IV of France (1589-1610), his excommunication (Sept. 1585), his conversion to Catholicism (July 1593) and the reluctancy of Pope Clement ... British Library
creatorOf Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. Pope Sixtus V brief, 1586. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Siena (Italy). Consilium generale. Consilium generale legal document, 1506. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf JOHANN GUSTAV MAGNUS STRANDMAN: Historical essays on ancient trades with Asia; 1808. French. Copy. Three historical essays on commercial relations between Oriental Europe and Russia with Asia and the Indies in ancient times by the German diplomat, hi... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF UTRECHT; 1699-1717. Latin and Italian. Copies. A collection of papers relating to the controversy between the Holy See of Rome and the Church of Holland in respect to the election of the Archbishop... British Library
creatorOf Montmorency, Anne, duc de, 1493-1567. Anne de Montmorency nomination, 1552. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Relazioni and other historical papers relating to Spain, England and the Papacy; 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford but lacking his armorial bookplate. 'L362' in pencil in lower left corner of front pastedo..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other historical papers relating to Persia, Spain, France, Rome and Florence; circa 1537-1666. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1). Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CXI' in upper right corner of ... British Library
creatorOf TRACT on papal conclaves; early 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Treatise relating to the rules and proceedings of the conclaves for the election of the pope. The text is divided into 3 books (ff. 6, 67, 190), the third book including accounts of conclaves ... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of letters and papal instructions of Pope Julius III (1550-1555); circa 1550-1562. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect at the end. The letters (ff. 1-57v) and instructions (ff. 66-256v) are addressed to cardinals, European and Italian ru... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL CONTROVERSIES between the House of Savoy and the Papacy in the 1720s and 1730s; 1698-1733. Italian, Latin and French. Copies, partly printed. Contemporary table of contents (ff. 1-3). Owned by Frederick North, 5t... British Library
creatorOf ANTONIO CALERGI: Commentarii delle Cose di Candia; late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian. Chronicle of the island of Crete from the origins to the year 1303 written around mid 16th cent. by Antonio Calergi (1521-1555), a Venetian nobleman in Crete. Inc.... British Library
creatorOf A TREATISE, entitled (f. 3) 'Discorso se le Decime siano debiti legitimi ouero Limosine uolontarie', apparently unpublished, directed against the views of John Wycliffe and the followers of John Huss on tithes, by Giovanni Ciampoli (d. 8 Sept. 1643),... British Library
creatorOf SUMMARY TABLE OF WORLD RULERS; 1590-1603. Italian. Autograph. A summary table of kings and rulers of all Western, Oriental, African and American countries, from Spain, France, Lorraine to Malacca, Philippines, China, Japan, Congo, Egypt, and America,... British Library
creatorOf "VITA e Pontificato di Papa Innocenzo X [1644-1655], divisa in Due Libri." Beg. "La lunghezza del Pontificato di Papa Urbano VIII," and ends abruptly with the heading "Origine del Conte Pezzola." The work is divided into two books, and the first book..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Tou en hagiois p[atro]s hēmōn Kyrillou archiepiskopou Hierosolymōn Logos eis tēn hypapantēn tou K[yrio]u hēmōn I[ēso]u Ch[risto]u ; Tou en hagiois patros hēmōn Iōannou archiepiskopou Kōnstantinopoleōs tou Chrysostomou Logos eis tēn hagian tou Ch[risto]u deuteran parousian. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf CRISTOFORO CATTANEO: Geomantia; 16th cent. Italian transl. Copy, 18th cent. A manual of geomancy originally written in French and attributed to the Genoese gentleman Cristoforo Cattaneo, possibly the son of Francesco di Cristoforo Cattaneo della Volt... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS papers relating to the dispute between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon I Bonaparte and the Pope's return to Rome; 1808-1814. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplat... British Library
creatorOf CHRONICLES RELATING TO NAPLES; 16th cent. Italian. Copies, mid 17th cent. Armorial bookplate of th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/16/E' (front pastedown). '242' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8662, ... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of historical relazioni, memorials, letters, and satirical prose, poems, and pasquinades relating to Rome, Spain, Sicily, Naples, Austria, and to the suppression of the Society of Jesus, during the papacies of Clement XIII (1758-1769), Cle... British Library
creatorOf Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. Pope Sixtus V indulgence, 1587. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Other catalogues of the same collection in Add. 8794 and 8795. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giov... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Portugal, Rome, France, Tuscany, Candia, Venice, Perugia, and Poland; circa 1619-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) manifesto (art. 1) of King John IV of Portugal, 1647; ... British Library
creatorOf MARCO FOSCARINI: RELAZIONE OF SAVOY; 1743. Italian. Copy. Transcript of the relazione compiled by Marco Foscarini, Venetian Ambassador to Savoy and later Doge of Venice (1762-1763). Dedicated to Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy, the text contains a report... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Tengoccio d'Enea de. Terms of payment, 1387. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, letters, sermons, and political, philosophical and religious tracts relating to England, France, Spain, Genoa, Cyprus, the Papacy, and Tuscany; circa 1554-1559. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. ... British Library
creatorOf Giovanni Francesco Buzzacarini: Chronicle of Padua from 1492 to 1520; circa 1520. Apparently autograph. Italian. Imperfect. The chronicle concerns the war between Padua and Venice, 1492-1520, and was written by Giovanni Francesco Buzzacarini circ... British Library
creatorOf GIUSTIN DA RIVA: letters as Provveditore Generale of Dalmatia and Albania to Venetian Ambassadors and other offices of state; 1705-1708. Italian. Copies. Recipients include the Bailì Ascanio Giustinian and the Ambassador Straordinario Carlo Ruzzini a... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, letters, and other papers mainly relating to the negotiations of Cardinal Carlo Carafa and his brother Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano, during the papacy of Paul IV [Giovanni Pietro Carafa]; circa 1555-1619. It... British Library
creatorOf EXCERPTS FROM THE RULES of the Apostolic Chancery; circa 1611 (see f. 67). Latin. Copy. The so-called Regulae Cancellariae Apostolicae were renewed upon the election of a new pope until 1730, when the 72 rules that are now in use were established (cf... British Library
creatorOf Adrian VI, Pope, 1459-1523. Pope Adrian VI bull, 1522. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MATTEI LETTER-BOOK: Register of dispatches to Cardinal Francesco Barberini and others from Gaspare Mattei, Bishop of Athens, as papal nuncio to Emperor Ferdinand II (8 Aug. 1639 -2 Apr. 1644); 1640. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Register copies. Reci... British Library
creatorOf Alberini, Marcello, 1511-1580. Discorso di Marcello Alberino Rom ̊sopra il sacco di Roma in tempo di Papa Clemente VII con altre particolarità successe innanzi e doppo detto sacco : manuscript, [16--?]. Princeton University Library
creatorOf Ceylon, 1804 British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF HUMANISTIC HISTORICAL TEXTS; 3rd quarter of 15th cent. Latin. The collection includes Poggio Bracciolini, De varietate Fortunae, Books 1-3 (art. 1, ff. 2-51v), Matteo Palmieri, Liber de temporibus (art. 2, ff. 52-109), Agostino Dati, Hi... British Library
creatorOf Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-. Collection of autographs of prime ministers and royalty. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf JACOPO SALVIATI, DUKE OF GIULIANO: Poems; mid 17th cent. Italian. Autograph. Collection of sonnets, poems and poetic dialogues written by Jacopo di Lorenzo Salviati (1607-1672), the Duke of Giuliano unhappily married to Veronica Cibo, and dedicated t... British Library
referencedIn Lord Byron manuscript material : 184 items, 1807-1824 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
creatorOf COLLECTION OF LETTERS to Maffeo Albertini of Verona; 1606. Italian. Collection of original letters with paper seals sent in the year 1606 by various correspondents to Maffeo Albertini of Verona (not to be confused with Maffeo Albertini, presbyter and... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS on European and Italian history; circa 1577-1677. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Relates mostly to the rights of the Church to Italian states such as Ferrara, Modena, Comacchio, the investiture and the rights of the ... British Library
creatorOf "VITA della Sigra. Caterina Sforza Riaria, Signora d'Imola e di Forli [daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, and widow of Girolamo Riario, Conte d'Imola]; descritta da Fabio Oliuo." Paper; XVIIth cent. With book-plate of the arms of the E..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf DIARY OF PARIS DE GRASSIS; 1504-1521. Latin. Copy, late 17th or early 18th cent. Paris de Grassis (d. 1528), was appointed Master of Ceremonies by Pope Julius II on 26 May 1504, and Bishop of Pesaro by Leo X in 1515. His diary records events in the p... British Library
referencedIn Vol. II. xixth cent.William Upcott: Collection of autograph letters,: 18th, 19th centt.includes:f. 3 Jenkins, Miss: Letter to J. Lilly: 1854. f. 4 Thomas Jolley: Letter to R. Triphook: 1825. f. 6 Nelson Kerr: Letter to R. Triphook: 1823. f. 8 Alph..., 19th century British Library
referencedIn Grimani, Pietro, 1677-1752. Letters to Carlo Ruzzini : London, 1711 [i.e. 1712] Mar 11-1713 Aug 4. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Orthodox Eastern Church. Sticherarion in Greek : manuscript, [ca. 1300]. Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf TRACT ON THE SUCCESSION TO THE PORTUGUESE CROWN; circa 1578-1580. Portuguese. 17th cent. Copy. A treatise concerning the succession of King Henry of Portugal (1578-80). The son of Manuel I, Henry was educated for the priesthood and created a cardinal... British Library
creatorOf CATALOGUES of the Manuscripts and Books of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; after 1817. Greek, Latin, and Italian. For other catalogues of the Guilford collection see Add. 16180, 16181, 16182, 16570, 16572, 16573, 16574, 16575, and 16576. Owned... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Urbino, France, England and Spain; circa 1615-1633. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 5, ff. 122-130) a political tract in favour of the marriage ... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of treatises relating to dynastic, administrative and ambassadorial matters involving the Papal Court, Naples and Sicily, Spain, and France, during the papacies of Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII; circa 1623-1667. It... British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827. Letters, 1804 Sept. 20 - Oct. 2. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
creatorOf REGISTER of anonymous letters from Rome; 1718-1727. Italian. Copy. Incomplete. The collection of letters originally consisted of three books. The third book is now missing. The remaining two books respectively contain letters covering the period 17 D... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE of Rome and Petition to the Pope, possibly Innocent X(1644-1655); circa 1644-1656. Italian. Copies. The relazione of Rome (art. 1) relates to the recently elected Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667). Table of contents (f. 1) added later. Old sig... British Library
creatorOf STATUTES OF CORVARA: a collection of the statutes of Corvara, near La Spezia, with related confirmations and judgements by the commune of Genoa; after 1501. Latin. Statutes passed by the councillors of Corvara and presented to Johannes Lemengre [Jean... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI ABBONDI AND ANTONIO AIROLDI: Relazione offered to the Grascia; 1792. Italian. Copy. Report to the Grascia, the board in charge of the quality and price of provisions to the Papacy, relating to the Company of Butchers at Rome and to the lambi... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and financial accounts relating to the Papacy, Venice, France, Spain, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and England; circa 1532-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (ff. 231-232v) the final sentence pronou... British Library
creatorOf Marra Family. Carte della nobile Famiglia della Marra, 1640. Harvard Law School Library, HLS Library
referencedIn Vol. III (ff. 363). 1800, 1801.Robert Arbuthnot, Chief Secretary, Ceylon Government: Letters to Huskisson: 1801, 1802.George III of England: Correspondence and papers of W. Huskisson: 1782-1820.includes:ff. 1-4, 313 General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Gre..., 1800-1801 British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of historical, religious and moral tracts, partly relating to Jansenism and the history of heresy in the Eastern Churches, with lists of Roman Emperors and other rulers, and a collection of inscriptions on Roman imperial coins; circa 1628-... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI FRANCESCO COMMENDONE: Discourse on the Court of Rome; circa 1547-1559, together with other writings relating to the conflict and peace negotiations between Pope Paul III and Charles V and Pope Paul IV and Philip II. Italian. 17th cent. Copy.... British Library
creatorOf Papers relating to the interdict of Pope Paul V on Venice, 1605-1607; early 17th cent. Italian. Copies. The MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 415, p. 31, and described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo... British Library
creatorOf TREATISE ON PHYSICS; 18th cent. Latin. Copy. An anonymous treatise on physics preceded by an introduction on the Geometric Terminology used in the treatise. Title (f. 12) 'Physica / Quid sit Physica, quid eius obiectum, qui finis, quae partes', inc. ... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI OF CONSTANTINOPLE; 1572-1595. Italian. Copies, late 17th cent. A collection of relazioni from Venetian Ambassadors and other Venetian citizens at Costantinople. Detailed table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand. Owned by Frederick North, 5t... British Library
creatorOf Testa, Giovanni di Urbano Piccolomini del. Giovanni di Urbano Piccolomini del Testa estate arbitration, 1493. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf DIEGO ENRÍQUEZ DEL CASTILLO: Chronicle of Enrique IV, 1454-74; early 16th cent. Spanish. Copy. The text is a transcript of the chronicle of Enrique IV of Castile and León, compiled by Diego Enríquez de Castillo, royal chaplain and chronicler, between... British Library
creatorOf LETTERS AND TRACTS ON RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE PAPACY at the time of Popes Alexander VII and Clement X and King Louis XIV; 1655-1672. Italian, Latin, Spanish, and French. Copies. A collection of tracts, papal briefs and letters mostly relatin... British Library
creatorOf ANONYMOUS COLLECTION OF LIVES of eminent people and Italian heretics condemned by the Inquisition in Rome; late 17th -early 18th cent. Italian. Copy. The texts provide detailed accounts of the lives, trials and executions of : -(a) art. 1, ff. 3-21... British Library
creatorOf Ciampoli, Giovanni Battista, 1590-1643. [Poetry and prose], [between 1649 and 1666]. Newberry Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS AND PAPERS RELATING TO PORTUGAL AND THE PAPACY; 1577-1767. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly certified. Arts. 2-10, 12-14, 16-18 concern the papal refusal to recognise the legitimacy of the Portuguese Kings between 1640-1669 and ... British Library
referencedIn (XII. ff. 368). Mar. 1816-1820.includes:f. 1 Comte de Grote: Letterto the 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1816.: Fr. ff. 3, 41, 75 Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septimanie Du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu d 1822: Letters to the 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1816.: Fr. f. 4 Roedere..., 1816-1820 British Library
creatorOf PORT OF MARDICK: two tracts on the handover of the port by the French government to the English in Oct. 1657; circa 1658. Italian translation. Copies. The first tract (art. 1, ff. 2-41) is the Italian translation of a French pamphlet published anonym... British Library
creatorOf REPORTS ON THE FINANCES OF FRANCE, with a list of its Naval Forces; 1741-1742, 1744, 1749. French. Copy. Detailed accounts of royal revenues and expenses in France for the years 1741-1743 at the time of the contrôleur général de Finances Philibert Or... British Library
creatorOf ANTONIO MARIA ZUCCHI TRAVAGLI: Historical defence of the town of Pennabilli; 1752. Italian and Latin. Copy. Zucchi Travagli was a well known historian of Pennabilli and auditor in Pesaro of the papal legate of Urbino from 1750. The text relates to a ... British Library
creatorOf RELATION OF FRANCE DURING THE MINORITY OF LOUIS XIV; 1647. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the court of France during the regency of the Queen Mother Anna of Austria. The anonymous author describes the state and court offices and provides names and a bri... British Library
creatorOf GIROLAMO LUNADORO: Relazione of Rome; circa 1611. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the Papal Court written by the nobleman Girolamo Lunadoro of Siena, allegedly for a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly Carlo (elected cardinal in 1615). Other 17th-cent. copies,... British Library
creatorOf Borgia Lanzol de Romaní, Pietro Lodovico, Cardinal, 1417-1511. Cardinal Pietro Lodovico Borgia license, 1508. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Chronicles of the Venetian Republic; after 1497. Italian. This MS. is apparently a digest of extracts from chronicles recording the history of the Venetian Republic. It is arranged topographically, with sections on Venice itself, 421-1492 (ff. 1, ... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of instructions and relazioni to and from papal nuncios and other representatives of the Holy See relating to France, the peace congress of Cologne, England, Urbino, Senigallia, Tuscany, and the Valtelline during the papacy o... British Library
creatorOf Pius III, Pope, ca. 1440-1503. Pope Pius III bull, 1503. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf BARTOLOMEO CHIOCCARELLO: Summary of the Archive of the Royal Jurisdiction in the Kingdom of Naples; circa 1635. Italian and Latin. Copies. The present MS. contains the Indice all'Archivio della Real Giurisdizione published around 1635 by Bartolomeo C... British Library
creatorOf HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, 1740-1748; 2nd half of 18th cent. British Library
creatorOf 'DIARIA RERUM ROMANORUM' of Stefano Infessura and an Account of Roman Families by Castallo Metallino; 1303-1494, and apparently 14th or 15th century. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. '290' in pencil in upper right corner of f. 1. Purchased, toge... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Andrea di Nanni Todeschini. Andrea di Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini legal document, 1496. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf SHEFFIELD PARK PAPERS. Vols. III-V. Letters from Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, to his family, mainly to his sisters, Anne and her husband, the 1st Earl of Sheffield, Catherine and her husband, Sylvester Douglas, 1st Earl Glenbervie, and Lady..., 1798-1825 British Library
referencedIn Emo, Giovanni, 1670-1760. Letters to Carlo Ruzzini : Paris, 1712 Mar 3-Aug 11. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Vol. XXXI (ff. 241). 1822-1826.includes:ff. 1, 37 Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Maitland, GCB; Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands: Warrants to Lt.-Col. C.J. Napier: 1822.ff. 3-20 passim.,69-75v, 107, 200 Michele Ciciliani, of Corfu: Let..., 1822-1826 British Library
creatorOf HISTORY OF GENEVA AND ITS CHURCH; 1744. Italian. Copy. A summary history of Geneva composed by an anonymous, possibly a Venetian citizen, identified by the initials 'D. G. M. V. Ven.o' (f. 1). The history is composed of excerpts from the work of the ... British Library
creatorOf DENIS VOUZZANESSY: Discours sur les mœurs des habitans des Isles Ioniennes; 1810. French. Autograph. A philosophical tract on human nature and contemporary politics in Greece. Inc. (f. 3) 'Discours sur le mœurs des habitans des Isles Ioniennes / Préc... British Library
creatorOf Giovanetti, Francesco, d. 1586. Pia defensio sanctae apostolicae sedis Romanae : manuscript, [not after 1570]. Harvard University, Houghton Library
referencedIn CATALOGUE of the Manuscripts in the Library of Frederic North, fifth Earl of Guilford ; arranged alphabetically according to authors. By Machel Stace Two Volumes. Folio. [16,180, 16,181.] British Library
creatorOf Fiocca, Antonio, Abbot. Memorie istoriche de fatti più notabili succeduti nell'anno 1708, e 1709 trà le corti di Roma, Vienna e Barcellona registrate dall'Abbate Antonio Fiocca della città di Catanzano ... di sett. MDCCIX : manuscript, 1709. Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf HISTORICAL PAPERS relating to financial affairs of the Papacy and tax immunities of clerics; 1732-1790. Italian. Partly printed. The volume includes a defence of Cardinals Niccolò Coscia and Francesco Antonio Fini in fiscal matters; a controversy bet... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF ITALIAN VERSE AND PROSE; circa 1656. Italian. Copy. The collection includes two idylls in praise of Queen Christina of Sweden (arts. 1-2, ff. 1-27v) and two poems in octava rima in praise of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (art. 3, f... British Library
referencedIn ORIGINAL LETTERS and papers addressed to General Pasquale Paoli, President and Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard in Corsica, and Mayor of Bastia, on the affairs of Corsica; 1794-1797. 1. [Samuel Hood, Baron] Hood [Admiral and Commander-in-Chie..., 1794-1797 British Library
creatorOf ANONYMOUS DIARY AND THE DIARY OF GIOVANNI FRANCESCO FIRMANI; 1456-1476 and 1529-1565. Latin and Italian. Copies, first half of 17th cent. '25' in black ink in lower left corner of front pastedown and '341' in pencil in upper left corner of front past... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, papal instructions, and discourse relating to Rome, Siena, France, the German Empire, Spain, Mantua and Monferrato; circa 1554-1636. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes (art. 1, ff. 4v-81v) th... British Library
creatorOf Relazioni and papers relating to Venice, Cyprus, and Spain; 2nd half of 16th cent.-early 18th cent. Italian. Copies. The MS. is described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, xii (... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS mostly relating to the Spanish War of Succession; 1697-1710, 1576-1577. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Copies, partly printed. Letters and papers of the Emperors Leopold I and Joseph I, Louis XIV of France, Charles III o... British Library
creatorOf GEROLAMO CONESTAGIO DE FRANCHI: Dell'unione del regno di Portogallo alla corona di Castiglia; circa 1585. Italian. Copy. An historical account of the unification of the kingdoms of Portugal and Spain under Philip II of Spain in 1580, following the de... British Library
creatorOf VIVALDO DEL BELCALZER: compendium of 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, translated into Italian; before 1309. Italian and Latin. Vivaldo del Belcalzer (d. after 1308) was a notary and councillor of Mantua whose sole known work is hi... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other political papers relating to Spain, Naples, Liguria, Rome, France and the Empire; circa 1646-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. Among other things the collection contains (arts. 8-15) relazioni and a sati... British Library
creatorOf 'DIARIA RERUM ROMANORUM' of Stefano Infessura and Chronicle of the papacy and events in Rome; 1294-1494 and 1521-1561. Latin and Italian. Copies, late 17th or early 18th cent. The present manuscript is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 1548, p. 122. '3... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE OF ITALY; 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Historical description of the Italian principalities and republics. Inc. (f. 1) 'L'Italia dominatrice una volta del mondo e poi preda del mondo istesso', expl. (f. 147) 'Isola del Gozzo con la piccola Com... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers; circa 1350-1631. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The collection is separable into two parts. The first part (ff. 3-107v) relates to the Papacy and its relations with Savoy and other Itali... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, and discourses relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the League of Tuscany, Venice, Modena and Parma during the war of Castro, Ferrara, France, the Netherlands, and the Congress of Cologne; circa 153... British Library
creatorOf "GESTA ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM, memoria digna, que in cronicis communibus non habentur, a Leone IX, anno 1050 [sic], usque ad Nicolaum Vm." Contents: 1. Lives of the Popes from Leo IX [enthroned Feb. 1049] to Alexander III, omitting Victor II, Benedict ..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf Amidei, Alessandro. Avvertimenti. University of California, Los Angeles
creatorOf CHRONICLE OF SPAIN; circa 1741. Italian. Copy, imperfect. An abridged history of Spain from antiquity to 1741 (f. 65v). Inc. (f. 1) 'Capo I / Di qualche antica Monarchia, e particolarmente dell'Imperio de Romani, del suo smembramento e quali nuovi st... British Library
creatorOf ANDREA CORNARO: Historia Candiana, books 13-16; 17th cent. Italian. The MS. contains the last four books (books 13-16) of the chronicle of Crete written in the early 17th cent. by the Cretan historian Andrea Cornaro, son of Giacomo. The books cover t... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, political tracts, letters and satirical verses relating to the Thirty Years War in Italy and Flanders; circa 1630-1640. Italian and Spanish. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LX... British Library
creatorOf ANGELO EMO: Despatches from Dalmatia; 1714-1717. Italian. Copies. A collection of 167 despatches from Angelo Emo, Provveditore Generale of Dalmatia and Albania, to Doge Giovanni II Corner (1709-1722). Each volume has the title 'Dispacci / Angelo Emo ... British Library
creatorOf ALESSANDRO ANDREA: Chronicle of the Carafa War in the Lazio and in Naples in 1556-1557; late 16th cent. Latin. Autograph. A chronicle of the war between Philip II of Spain and Cosimo I de' Medici, Gran Duke of Tuscany, and Pope Paul IV Carafa and Hen... British Library
creatorOf FRANCESCO ZAZZERA: Diary of events in Naples 1616-1623; early 17th cent. Italian, Spanish and Latin. Copy. The diary is divided into two sections. The first section (art. 1) describes the events relating to the viceroyship of Pedro Téllez y Girón, Du... British Library
creatorOf Wemyss, David Douglas, 1760-1839. Manuscript and letter, 1804 September 21 - December 7. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
creatorOf López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564. De los hechos de los Barbarosas : Al muy ille. Señor Don Pedro Alvarez y Osorio Marques de Astorga : manuscript, between 1545 and 1574. HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
creatorOf FRANÇOIS ANNIBAL D'ESTRÉES: Memoires sur la régence de la reine Marie de Médicis; 18th cent. Italian translation. Possibly imperfect. Italian translation of the memoirs of François Annibal Duc d'Estrées, Marquis de Cœuvres and Maréchal de France, rel... British Library
creatorOf Varese Letter-Book: Letters of Cardinals Barbarigo, Casanate, and others, mostly addressed to Pompeo Varese, titular Archbishop of Adrianople (Edirne) and Papal nuncio to Venice 1671-1675, together with related papers; 1666-1675. Italian and Latin. ... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Guido di Biagio di Carlo. Guido di Biagio di Carlo Piccolomini will, 1410. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf History of Vicenza to 1200; 18th cent. Italian and Latin. Imperfect. This anonymous chronicle begins with the foundation of the town in 1710 B.C. and ends with a treaty of peace between Vicenza and Padua in 1200. The text is divided into ten book... British Library
creatorOf NICOLÒ CARAVITA: Defence of Alessandro Riccardi; 1695. Italian and Greek. Copy, 18th cent. Nicolò Caravita (1647-1717) was a Neapolitan jurist and man of letters. With this defence he obtained the acquittal of Alessandro Riccardi accused of assaultin... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, and letters relating to the history of the Roman Church and political affairs in 16th-and 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1554-1695. Italian, Latin, and French. Table of contents (ff. 1-2v). 'D.V.7' ... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini family. Piccolomini family papers, 1197?-1724. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf FRANCESCO SAVERIO SALVATI: Dissertation relating to the communicatio in divinis of Armenian Catholics with the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church; 1788. Italian and Latin. Autograph. The text relates to the religious issue of allowing the Armenians C... British Library
creatorOf "RELATIONE del Ponteficato di Papa Alessandro Sesto [Roderigo Borgia, 1492-1503]; con uarie notitie notabilissime non deseritte da scrittori, che sono esentiali; raccolte fedelmente da B Gaddi." Imperfect. Paper; XVIIth cent. With book-plate of the a..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters and other historical papers relating to the papal court during the papacy of Urban VIII and at the beginning of the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS AND DIARIES OF CONCLAVES FROM MARCELLUS II TO INNOCENT IX, OMITTING PAUL IV; 1555-1591. Italian and Latin. Copies, woodcut portraits. Three full-page woodcut portraits (ff. 84v, 161v, 231v, of Sixtus V, Pius IV, and Gregory XIV) illustrate t... British Library
creatorOf SAVO MELLINI: Dispatches to Cardinals Altieri and Cibo, together with accounts of expenses; 1675-1678, 1685. Italian. Partly copies. A collection of dispatches and accounts of Savo Mellini, the papal nuncio to Spain from 30 Sept. 1675 to 8 Oct. 1685.... British Library
creatorOf VINCENZO ROGADEI: Pastoral letters and Oration to Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Sicily; 1810-1812. Italian. Signed. The MS. was offered in 1812 by Rogadei, bishop of Caserta, to Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon I and wife of Joachim M... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF MONACO AND VALTELLINE; circa 1641, 1621 and 1513. Italian and Latin. Copies. Arts. 1-4 (ff. 2-122) relate to the decision of Honoré II Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, to abandon the protection of Spain and pass under... British Library
creatorOf SACCHETTI CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS: Vols. I-VI; 1623-1626. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies, partly in cipher. Registers of secret dispatches, letters and correspondence of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, Bishop of Gravina, with miscellaneous correspo... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE OF THE ISLAND OF CHIOS; 1810. Italian. Account of the island with geographical description of it and information on finances and trade. Apparently complited by Domenico Luigi Santi, priest of Chios (see Kanellakē, op. cit. below, p. 488). T... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Girolamo. Girolamo Piccolomini notarial document, 1509. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS OF THE HOLY SEE IN THE AEGEAN ISLANDS, TURKEY, SYRIA, LEBANON, THE HOLY LAND, AND EGYPT; circa 1720-1769 British Library
creatorOf FALCONIERI LETTER-BOOK: Letters and dispatches to and from Ottavio Falconieri, abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole, as papal internuncio at Brussels (Oct. 1672 -3 Nov. 1674); 1672-1675. Italian, French, and Greek. Partly copies, mostly in cipher. Corresp... British Library
creatorOf HANDWRITING AND COMPOSITION BOOK; early 18th cent. Italian. Contains miscellaneous pieces of verse and prose written out mainly, it would appear, as schoolroom exercises. One piece copied (f. 16) takes the form of a letter from Maria Maddalena Mellin... British Library
creatorOf ALVISE DI NICOLÒ CONTARINI: Relazione of Rome, followed by anonymous political tract; 1648. Italian. Copy. Art. 1 (ff. ii, 1-25) is the relazione of Rome written by Alvise di Nicolò Contarini, Venetian ambassador at Rome from 1645 to 1648 during the ... British Library
creatorOf GIUSEPPE CAPITANIO DE MUZZI: Letter-Book; 1698-1702. Italian, French, and Latin. Partly autograph and printed. The volume, dated 1710 (f. 1), contains letters and relazioni by Giuseppe Capitanio de Muzzi (1651-1733), abbot and travel writer from Berg... British Library
creatorOf GIUSEPPE SIMONE ASSEMANI: Commentary on the Tavole Capponiane; circa 1743. Greek, and Latin. Copy. Commentary by the orientalist and later Prefect of the Vatican Library Giuseppe Simone Assemani (1687-1768) on the Calendar of the Greek Church or Meno... British Library
creatorOf "VITE di Pontefici, Cardinali, et altri Prencipi et huomini Illustri per santità, lettere, et arme, cavate da un manuscritto antichissimo. Tomo primo," beg. with Pope Eugenius IV and ending with Malraso Ceciliano. This collection of lives by the Flor..., 17th century British Library
creatorOf DECRETALS: an anonymous collection, the latest being attributed to Pope Lucius III (1181-1185), with marginal gloss, partly contemporary and partly of slightly later date, in which frequent reference is made to Gratian's Decretum, etc.; a single decr... British Library
creatorOf Siena (Italy). Consilium generale. Consilium generale decision, 1363. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Petrucci, Alfonso, Cardinal. Alfonso Petrucci public instrument, 1516. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf STUDENT NOTES ON COMMENTARIES TO CICERO, VIRGIL, SENECA; 1593-1594. Latin and Italian. Autograph. Possibly imperfect. Notes in Latin and Italian collected during lessons, mostly by Leone Lancerini (see ff. 109, 120, 128), a student attending the firs... British Library
creatorOf Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872,. Patristic works on the soul : manuscript, [9--]. Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf LIVES OF POPE INNOCENT XII AND CARDINALS DURING HIS PONTIFICATE; an account written by Count Orazio D'Elci; 1699-1701. Italian. Copy, engraved portrait (f. 1v). Main title of MS. (f. 2) 'Vita di Papa Innocenzo XII e de' signori cardinali viventi in q... British Library
referencedIn PEEL PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 300). Letters to Sir R. Peel, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, from [Henry Addington, 1st Viscount] Sidmouth, as Home Secretary, 1812-1818. Folio.Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Prime Minister: Correspondence with Sir..., 1812-1818 British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF RELAZIONI AND PAPERS RELATING TO NAPLES; late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Title (f. 1) 'Relationi diverse del Regno di Napoli'. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Table of MSS ... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS relating to the dispute between Urban VIII and Odoardo Farnese; 1641-1645. Italian and Latin. Papers relating to the dispute between Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) and the Duke Odoardo Farnese (1622-1646) over territories in the Duchy of Parma an... British Library
creatorOf DIARY OF JOHANNES BURCHARD, liturgist and Papal Master of Ceremonies; 1 Jan. 1497-24 Dec. 1502. British Library
creatorOf CLEMENT XI LETTER-BOOK; circa 1704-1721. Italian. Autograph. Notes and minutes of letters of Pope Clement XI Albani (1700-1721). Title (f. 1) 'Lettere autografe di Papa Clemente XI', other title (f. 3v) 'Viglietti [sic] di Clemente XI / alcuni concer... British Library
creatorOf UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS: Dispatches to and from Roberto Ubaldini, papal nuncio to France; 1607-1616 British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF ITALIAN PROSE, SATIRICAL VERSE AND SONNETS; 1720. Italian, and Latin. Copy. The collection is entitled (f. 1) 'Distica nostra legant pueri, casteque puelle / Continet obscenos Fabula nulla locos. / Raccolta di varie Poesie fatta da D.P.... British Library
creatorOf TRACT ON THE MARRIAGES OF ALPHONSO VI AND PEDRO OF PORTUGAL; [1668?]. Italian. Copy. An anonymous tract on the annulment of the marriage of King Alphonso VI to Mary Frances Elisabeth of Savoy, pronounced on 24 March 1668, and the legitimacy of her su... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM NICHOLAS V TO URBAN VIII, ADDING CLEMENT V AND OMITTING PAUL IV, PREFACED BY A PROCEDURAL MANUAL ON THE CONCLAVE AND FOLLOWED BY A DESCRIPTION OF THE DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS OF THE CONCLAVE; 1305-1740. Italian and Latin. Cop... British Library
creatorOf HISTORICAL PAPERS relating to Rome; 1624-1654. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies. The volume includes reports about the succession of Mantua; relazione of events in Rome from January 1635 to September 1643 by Monsignor Giovan Battista Spada; reply ... British Library
creatorOf GIROLAMO LUNADORO: Relazione of Rome; circa 1611. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the Papal Court written by the nobleman Girolamo Lunadoro of Siena, allegedly for a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly Carlo (elected cardinal in 1615). The MS. also includes (f... British Library
creatorOf DOCUMENTS relating to Synods and Episcopal Constitutions of the Florentine diocese; 1478, 1508, 1327. Latin and Italian. Copies, early 18th cent. The first two documents (arts. 1-2, ff. 1-21) relate to the Pazzi conspiracy against the rulers of Flore... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS relating to the della Gherardesca and Strozzi families in Tuscany; 1738-1771. Italian and Latin. Drafts and copies. Arts. 1-7 (ff. 1-136v) relate to the controversy (1769-1775) between the Counts della Gherardesca and the Exchequer Court of Tu... British Library
referencedIn DRAFTS OF LETTERS from Lord Wellesley to various persons, viz. Rajah Ambajee Row ; the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors ; Lord H. W. Stuart; Sir W. Sidney Smith; Col. Palmer; Major Genl. Baird ; Lt. Col. Beresford; Harford Jones, Resident a... British Library
creatorOf CERVINI'S LETTERS, CLAUDIO TOLOMEI'S DISCOURSE, AND VISCONTI LETTER-BOOK; 1540-1562. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The first part of the MS. (ff. 2-29v) contains dispatches to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese from Cardinal Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi, ... British Library
creatorOf Collection of 59 Original Ordinances of the Naval Council of Venice under the leadership of naval commander Andrea Pisani; 1716-1718. Italian, Latin and Portuguese. Signed. The ordinances cover 7 June 1716 to 26 Sept. 1718, during the war against t... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters and political tracts relating to France, Rome, Germany, Bohemia, and Naples; circa 1619-1660. Italian. One draft (art. 1) and copies. The MS. includes: -(a) letters and treatise (arts. 1-3) relating to Jean Franço... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNT OF THE CONCLAVE for the election of Pius V; 1566. Italian. Copy. Pope Pius V was elected on 7 Jan. 1566. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Conclave nel quale fu creato Pio V 1566'. Inc. (f. 1) 'Il Conclave nel quale fu creato Pio Quinto, il numero ... British Library
creatorOf Cosci, Francesco. Francesco Cosci appointment, 1530. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf GIAN ANDREA DORIA LANDI: Criminal and civil law statutes and regulations for the administration of the Doria Landis' territories of Torriglia, Garbagna, Ottone, Carrega, S. Stefano, Loano, Stellanello, e Gremiasco; 2nd half of 17th -early 18th cent.... British Library
creatorOf LUDOVICO LUDOVISI: Instructions to Orazio Ludovisi and Matteo Baglioni relating to Valtelline, and to Father Tobia Corona relating to Geneva; 1623, 1621. Italian. Copies. Four instructions drawn up by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (1595-1632), Cardinal ... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and peace treaties relating to the Papacy, Switzerland, Cyprus, France, Naples, Genoa, Corsica, Piacenza, the German Empire, England, Spain, Tivoli, and Venice; circa 1361, 1514-1570. Latin and Italian. ... British Library
creatorOf Chronicle of Venice from its origins to 1612; 1st half of 17th cent. Italian and Latin. This anonymous chronicle gives an account of Venetian history from the mythical foundation of Venice by Antenor of Troy to the election of doge Marc'Antonio Mem... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI BATTISTA COCCINI: Commentary on conclaves; 1623. Latin. Copy. Giovanni Battista Coccini was auditor of the Sacra Romana Rota from 1600 and dean from 1612 until his death in 1641. The present text is a commentary on the rules for the election... British Library
creatorOf ALVISE II MOCENIGO (1700-1709): Ducal letters to successive Provveditori Generali of Dalmatia and Albania; 1702-1708. Italian. Copies. A collection of Ducal letters from the Doge to Marin Zane, Giustin da Riva and Vincenzo Vendramin, signed by Ducal ... British Library
creatorOf ASCANIO SAVORGNAN, Relazione of Cyprus; 1572. Italian. Copy, probably the presentation copy of the relazione sent to Baron Sfondrati by Francesco Marcaldi on 30 July 1572. The text is a full report of the military situation and the state of affairs o... British Library
creatorOf Cornia, Ascanio della. Letters and documents concerning Popes Marcellus II and Paul IV : manuscript, [16--] Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf JACOB EMERIX: Treatise on the Sacra Rota Romana; late 17th cent. Latin. Copy. Another copy in Add. 8468: see its description for information on Jacob Emerix and his work. Title (f. 1) 'Tractatus seu Notitia Sacrae Rotae Romanae / R.P.D. Iacobi Emerix... British Library
creatorOf CAMILLO PORZIO: Chronicle of the Neapolitan revolt in 1547; 3rd quarter of 16th cent. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. A chronicle of the riots caused by the attempt of the Spanish Viceroy Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo, Marqués de Villafranca, of introducing ... British Library
creatorOf POLITICAL TRACTS relating to the Papal Court; circa 1554-1610. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) discourse (art. 1, ff. 1-96v) relating to the Court of Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, dedicated to Girolamo Savorgnan (or Savorgn... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNT OF CONCLAVES from Clement XI to Pius VI, omitting Innocent XIII, Benedict XIII, and Benedict XIV; circa 1700-1775. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: accounts of the conclaves of popes Clement XI, 1700 (art. 1), Clement XII, 1730 (arts. 14-15... British Library
creatorOf Naples (Kingdom). Sovereign (1458-1494 : Ferdinand I). Naples legal document, 1491. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Konstantinos, Rhodios, 17th cent.?. Sēmeiotērion Kōnstantinou Rhodiou. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf DIARY OF THE PONTIFICATE OF JULIUS II; 1503-1512. Latin. Copy, late 17th or early 18th cent. Diary of events in Rome during the reign of Pope Julius II from his election on to 4 April 1512. The diary is divided into three sections. The first section ... British Library
referencedIn Journal of a Tour in the Mediterranean Area, 1791-2 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
creatorOf ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT of the uprising of students in the Jesuit college at Rome in 1647 at the time of Innocent X (1644-1655); circa 1647. Italian. Copy. The student revolt was prompted by the introduction of stricter rules of discipline by Francesco Pal... British Library
creatorOf Clement VII, Pope, 1478-1534. Pope Clement VII bull, 1529. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Manuscript copy of Vita di Alessandro VI, e de suoi figlioli, 1700. New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf VINCENZO STAMPA: Alexandrinae Mensae Descriptio; circa 1587. Latin. Copy. Text of dedication of a magnificent table in Florentine mosaic or pietra dura offered in 1587 to King Philip II of Spain by Cardinal Michele Bonelli, nephew of Pope Pius V and ... British Library
creatorOf Andrea de' Gatari: Chronicle of Padua and the house of Carrara from 1318 to 1425; 1560. Italian. The chronicle was begun by Andrea's father, Galeazzo, who covered the years 1318-1389. It was continued to 1407 by another son of Galeazzo, Bartolomeo... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includ... British Library
referencedIn (XLII.ff.340). May,1791-Aug. 1792.Sir Robert Ainslie, Ambassador to Turkey: Correspondence with Sir R. M. Keith: 1776-1792.includes:ff. 1, 29, 92, 102, 152, 160, 178, 186, 193, 199, 200, 202, 210, 232, 236, 241, 244, 255, 261, 267, 284, 292, 295, 296... British Library
creatorOf POPE JULIUS III: register of letters of Pope Julius III (1551-1555); 2nd half of 18th cent. Copy. Italian. The register of letters from Pope Julius III and his Secretary of State is divided into two sections. The first (ff. 2-226v) contains approxima... British Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. Diocese of Arezzo (Italy). Diocese of Arezzo nomination, 1579. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Andrea de Gatari: Compendium of the chronicle of the city of Padua and the house of Carrara, incorporating extracts from the chronicle of Daniele Chinazzo, 1311-1407; after circa 1520. Italian. The compendium is based on Andrea de Gatari's chronicl... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL; circa 1624-1672. Italian, partly in Latin. Copies. A collection of papers concerning the relations of the Papal Curia with Spain and Portugal before and after the election in 1640 of John Duke of Braganza as King John... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, and letters mainly relating to the Council of Trent and the wars of religion in France; circa 1560-1570. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes: -(a) relazione (art. 1) of Switze... British Library
creatorOf DIARY OF GIOVANNI FRANCESCO FIRMANI; 1529-1565. Latin. Copy, 17th cent. This diary relates to events in the papal curia between the reigns of Pope Clement VII and Pope Pius IV. The text for 1529-1565 is copied in several hands on ff. 2-221v; the text... British Library
referencedIn Vol. IV (ff. 418). 1802-1809.George III of England: Correspondence and papers of W. Huskisson: 1782-1820.William Huskisson, statesman: Correspondence with G. Canning.: 1801-1827.includes:f. 1 Major-General Francis Dundas, Acting Governor at the Cape:..., 1802-1809 British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Genoa, Venice, Ferrara, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, Naples, and Lombardy; circa 1640-1643. Italian. Copies. Arts. 5 (ff. 79-104v), and 7-10 (ff. 122-191v) relate to Portug... British Library
creatorOf INSTRUCTIONS to papal nuncios and other papal officers appointed to Spain, Flanders and Germany during the papacy of Gregory XV (1621-1623), with political and satirical texts, partly relating to Naples; 1621-1772. Italian and Latin. Partly copies. I... British Library
creatorOf Flores, Pietro, Bishop. Bishop Pietro Flores document, 1529. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political and satirical papers relating to Germany, Turkey, the Papal Court, Poland, France, Spain, and Venice; 1654-1675. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) satirical dialogues and tracts (arts. 1-2, 4, 6... British Library
creatorOf TRANSCRIPTS of papers in the Florentine archives relating to a proposed marriage between Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 6 Nov. 1612), and a sister of Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1611-1612. The chief correspondents are the Florentine repre..., 19th century British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, Poland, France, the German Empire, and Spain; circa 1568-1675. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LVIII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i,... British Library
creatorOf Letters relating to the Court of Rome, Spain and France; 1443-1561. Italian and Latin. Copies. Collection of letters written by papal nuncios and envoys concerning peace negotiations conducted by Popes Paul III, Julius III, and Emperor Charles V, ... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE of Rome; circa 1734 (brief dated 1734 mentioned on f. 180). Italian. Copy. The text relates to the administration of civil affairs in the Papal Curia, and was possibly compiled during the papacy of Pope Clement XII (1730-1740). Title (f. 1)... British Library
creatorOf NAVAGERO LETTER-BOOK; 1555-1556. Italian. Copy. Register of dispatches to the Doges of Venice Francesco Venier (1554-2 June 1556) and Lorenzo Priuli (14 June 1556-1559) from Monsignor Bernardo Navagero (Cardinal in 1561). The dispatches were sent by... British Library
creatorOf REGISTER OF PROPERTY RESTITUTIONS BY CHARLES I OF ANJOU IN NAPLES; 1276-1277. Latin. Copy, 18th cent. The MS. is a copy of an archival register in the Regia Camera della Sommaria in Naples. The register lists expropriated properties returned to the o... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS IN PIEDMONT; 1711-1713. Italian. Copies. Manifesto of Count Girolamo Marcello de Gubernatis, resident of the Duke of Savoy in Rome, and reply by Monsignor Pier Marcellino Corradini (later Cardinal 1712) relat... British Library
creatorOf Relazioni of Venice and Spain; 1619, 1606. Italian. Copies, early 17th cent. The MS. is described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, t. xii (1906), pt. i, no. cxxvi, p. 205. 'S(... British Library
referencedIn ALPHABETICAL Catalogue of printed books, in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish; part of the Library of the Hon. Frederic North (afterwards fifth Earl of Guilford); drawn up circa 1795. Quarto. [16,570.], approximately 1795 British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI PESARO: Relazione of Rome; [1656]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome written by Giovanni Pesaro together with Bertuccio Valier, Alvise Contarini and Nicolò Sagredo upon their return from the extraordinary embassy to the Papal Court in 165... British Library
creatorOf LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th... British Library
creatorOf HISTORICAL PAPERS relating to Rome; 1675-1728. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. The volume includes a report of the treaty of peace of Nimegen by Monsignor [Luigi] Bevilacqua; a life and eulogy of Clement XI; miscellaneous papers about free trade a... British Library
creatorOf STATUTES of the Wool Guild in Rome to 1582; late 17th cent. Latin. Copy. A copy of the statutes of the Wool Guild in Rome, issued in 1321, enlarged in 1425-1426, and revised up to 1582. The text of the statutes was published from this MS. by E. Steve... British Library
creatorOf GASPARO GIANNOTTI: Parere sopra il Ristretto delle Revoluzioni del Reame di Cipro; 1633. Italian. Tract in form of review sent to Giulio Cesare Catelmi relating to one of the political tracts on the Claim over the Kingdom of Cyprus by the House of Sa... British Library
creatorOf Falucci, Celio, fl. 1630. Il passaggio di D. Maria d'Austria regina d'Ungheria per lo stato ecclesiastico l'anno 1630 / descritto da Celio Falucci : manuscript, [16--?] Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf Pius III, Pope, ca. 1440-1503. Pope Pius III bull, 1503. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts relating to Rome, Florence, Ferrara and Padua; circa 1565-1574. Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '496' in ink in... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS relating to the papal Court, and internal government of Rome; 1667-1792. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. The MS. includes: -(a) ff. 1-82v, 'Discorso di Monsignor [Giovanni Francesco] Commendone Vescovo di Zante, fatto poi Cardinale da Papa... British Library
creatorOf MAZARIN LETTER-BOOKS: Letters of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin and his secretary Giuseppe Zongo Ondedei; 1647-1651. Italian, Spanish, Latin and French. Copies, partly 18th cent. The letters are mainly addressed to Italian cardinals, princes and captains. R... British Library
creatorOf FULVIO DELLA CORNIA: Manifesto; 1643. Italian. Copy. The manifesto was written by Fulvio della Cornia (Della Corgna, Della Corgnia; d. 1647), Duke and Papal governor of Castiglione del Lago, defending his decision to surrender the town to the army of... British Library
creatorOf Adrian VI, Pope, 1459-1523. Notarial document, 1522. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI TO THE VENETIAN SENATE; 16th cent. Italian. Copies. Three relazioni to the Venetian Senate from Vincenzo Querini, Venetian Oratore or Extraordinary Ambassador to Philip of Burgundy, Andrea Querini, possibly one of the Stimadori or appraiser... British Library
creatorOf FLORIO BUSTRON: Historia overo Commentarii de Cipro; 16th cent. Italian. Copy, late 18th cent. A chronicle of the island of Cyprus composed in the 16th cent. by Florio Bustron, a Cypriot counsellor to the Venetian governors of the island, who died in... British Library
creatorOf JOHANN RWYKTER: De Adamidarum Origine; 1604. Latin transl. Copy, 1690. An abridged universal history dedicated to Johann Adam von Bicken, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz (1601-Jan. 1604). The text is divided into three books (ff. 3, 12v, 34). It begins ... British Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. Diocese of Osma-Soria. Bishop. Bishop of Osma legal instrument, 1464. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Clement VII, Pope, 1478-1534. Pope Clement VII bull, 1529. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf LORENZO SORANZO AND ASCANIO GIUSTINIAN: Despatches from Constantinople; 1699-1704 British Library
creatorOf Relazioni, letters and papers relative to Dalmatia; late 17th-early 18th cent. Italian and Latin. Copies. The collection, which relates to 1670-1698, was compiled in preparation to new negotiations between Venice and the Turks, which concluded wit... British Library
referencedIn Ruzzini, Carlo, 1653-1735. Diplomatic dispatches to London and Vienna : Utrecht and the Hague, 1712 Apr 1-1713 Aug 22. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Matteo d'Alessandro d'Andrea Todeschini. Matteo d'Alessandro d'Andrea Todeschini Piccolomini legal brief, 1538. University of Pennsylvania Library
referencedIn DRAFTs and copies of Letters from Lord Wellesley to the Hon. Frederic North [afterwards Earl of Guilford] Governor of Ceylon, 23 Jan. 1800-3 July, 1805. Folio. [13,865.]Richard Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley: Correspondence wit... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, papal instructions, and political treatises relating to Spain, Sweden, Savoy, France, Ethiopia, Genoa, and Venice, mainly during the papacies of Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati, 1590-1591), Clement VIII (Ippolito A... British Library
creatorOf Rolandino of Padua: Chronicle of Ezzelino da Romano and the Marquisate of Treviso from 1194 to 1260; 1619. Latin. The chronicle covers the history of the Marquisate and the tyranny of Ezzelino da Romano, with particular focus on Padua, and was comp... British Library
creatorOf HISTORIA DE GABRIEL DE ESPINOSA, PASTELERO DE MADRIGAL; late 17th cent. Spanish. Copy. The text is an anonymous account of the impersonation of the deceased King of Portugal, Don Sebastian I, by Gabriel de Espinosa, a pastry-maker of the Spanish town... British Library
creatorOf Plautus, Titus Maccius. Nobilissimi Plauti poetae comici prima comedia Amphitrio : manuscript, [between 1475 and 1500]. Harvard University, Houghton Library
creatorOf Pius III, Pope, ca. 1440-1503. Pope Pius III judgment, 1499. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Domenico Zavoreo: Istoria Dalmatina; 1603. Italian. Copy, late 17th cent. The history of Dalmatia beginning with the description of the Illyrian region and population in ancient times and ending with the surrender of Split to the Venetian Republic... British Library
creatorOf CHARLES VII OF NAPLES: Points of negotiation for a Concordat between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Naples; 1739. Italian. Copy. The MS. contains the instructions given by Charles VII, King of Naples, to his plenipotentiary ministers for negotiating... British Library
creatorOf DESCRIPTION of the Chapel of St. Charles in St. Mary in Vallicella at Rome; 1679. Italian. Copy. Anonymous description of the Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo in the Roman church of St. Mary in Vallicella (also known as the Chiesa Nuova). The descripti... British Library
creatorOf GUIDO PANCIROLI: Annals of Reggio Emilia; 1560. Italian translation by Giovanni Boschi, 1694. Copy. Guido Panciroli (1523-1599), jurist and writer, wrote his chronicle of the town of Reggio Emilia, his town, from the foundation to the year 1560, or R... British Library
creatorOf GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOKS: Dispatches and letters to Niccolò Guidi del Bagno, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to France (25 June 1643 -Dec. 1656); 1644-1656 British Library
creatorOf DIARY of Giovanni Paulo Mucantio; 1598. Latin and Italian. Copy, 17th cent. Diary of ceremonies and events which took place in 1598 during the reign of Clement VIII, recorded by Giovanni Mucantio (1557-1617), Master of Ceremonies at the Papal Court. ... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI, LETTERS AND PAPERS RELATING TO DALMATIA; 1591-1707. Italian. Copies, early 18th cent. Relazioni and letters from Provveditori Generali and other Venetian officers operating in Dalmatia and Albania, 1591-1707. The MSS. are described by Foli... British Library
creatorOf PAOLO MERCATI: The Isle of Zante (Zakynthos); circa 1811. Italian. Geographical and historical description of the island in 18 short chapters. Title (f. 1) 'Notizie / riguardanti l'Isola del Zante / Compilate / dal Signor Conte Paolo Mercati', inc. (... British Library
creatorOf Ancona (Italy). Anziani. Privilege of citizenship, 1486-1487. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI ANTONIO RUZZINI: Despatches from Spain; 1750-1754. Italian. Copies. 214 dispatches from Giovanni Antonio Ruzzini to Doges Pietro Grimani (d. 7 March 1752) and Francesco Loredan (el. 18 March 1752) and the Venetian Senate, dated 1 May 1750 -... British Library
creatorOf Contarini, Nicolò, 1553-1631. Delle historie Venetiane, 1597-1599, ca. 1700. Folger Shakespeare Library
creatorOf DIARY OF SEBASTIANO DE BRANCA DE' TALINI; 1485-1517. Italian. Copy, late 16th or early 17th cent. A diary of events in Rome from the time of Pope Innocent VIII to that of Pope Leo X. Inc. 'Adi 3 di maggio 1485 fù ammazzato Bartolomeo Santa Croce', ex... British Library
creatorOf MICHELE LONIGO: Discourses of ecclesiastical etiquette; circa 1608-1644. Italian. Copy. Short tracts relating to problems of etiquette addressed to various cardinals and bishops by Michele Lonigo, deputy Prefect of the Vatican Library and Master of C... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNT of the journey of Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) to Paris for the coronation of Napoleon I in 1804; circa 1804. Italian and Latin. Copy. Title (f. 1) 'Narrazione istorica del viaggio fatto a Parigi da Sua Santità il regnante Sommo Pontefice Pio VI... British Library
creatorOf AD INSTITUTIONES CHRONOLOGICAS and DE DIIS QUORUM MENTIO FIT IN SCRIPTURIS; 1754. Latin. The first text in this MS., ‘Ad Institutiones Chronologicas’ (ff. 1-20v), has a preface on the use and necessity of chronology, followed by sections on historica... British Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Siena (Italy). Archdiocese of Siena nomination, 1511. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papal instructions, relazioni, and letters relating to Rome, France, Venice, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the German Empire, Persia and Turkey; circa 1507-1619. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added ... British Library
creatorOf GIUSEPPE LUIGI ASSEMANI: Travel Journal to Egypt and the Middle East; 1744-1745. Italian. Autograph. Giuseppe Luigi Assemani (circa 1710-1782), a naturalised Italian from a Syrian Maronite family, was professor of Syriac and Oriental liturgy at the C... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historic chronicles, relazioni, papal instructions, letters and discourse relating to the Hanseatic League, Monferrato, Great Britain, Rome, Mantua, Spain, India, Florence, Bohemia, Lucca, Modena, Switzerland, Poland, Prus... British Library
creatorOf PIETRO CIERA: Chronicle of the origins of Venice and its people; 1st half 16th cent. Latin. Imperfect. The chronicle is entitled 'De origine venetorum S.S. et de civitate venetiarum' and according to the author is based on antique annals of the town.... British Library
referencedIn ORIGINAL letters addressed to Colonel Lowe, serving in the Ionian Islands, Sweden, and Germany, Jan. 1811-Dec. 1813; with his own drafts. The writers are: Airey, Major-Gen. George, ff. 169, 171, 173, 185. Anino, Nicolo. Ital. f. 230. Barzoni, Vittori... British Library
creatorOf FARNESE CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO FRANCE AND PORTUGAL; 1539-1540, 1560-1564. Italian. Copies, partly in cipher. Correspondence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), nephew of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), relating to France and Portugal. ... British Library
creatorOf TOMASO PLACIDO TOMASI: La Vita di Cesare Borgia; circa 1643-1651. Italian and Latin. Copy. Imperfect. Life of Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois (1475-1507), son of Pope Alexander VI. Inc. (f. 7) 'Per rendere mai sempre detestabili al Mondo quegli ec... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, including satirical accounts and pasquinades, relating to the 'sede vacante' following the death of innocent xi, the conclave which elected alexander viii and his pontificate; 1689-1691. Italian and Latin. Copies, one printed ite... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO RIMINI, PARMA, CORREGGIO, MILANO, VALTELLINA, AND CASTRO; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. Copies. Included are chronicles and anonymous relazioni. Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/19/A' (front pastedo... British Library
creatorOf CARAFA LETTER-BOOKS: Dispatches from Cardinals Francesco and Antonio Barberini to Pier Luigi Carafa as papal nuncio to Cologne (17 Apr. 1624 -20 Nov. 1634); 1624-1635. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Signed, partly in cipher, partly copies. Original let... British Library
creatorOf UNIVERSAL HISTORY; 2nd half of 18th cent. British Library
creatorOf CHRONICLE OF THE WAR OF CANDIA IN THE YEARS 1644-1651; 2nd half of 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Imperfect. Anonymous detailed description of Venetian military tactics and actions in the war of Candia against the Turks in 1644-1651, during the dogadi of ... British Library
creatorOf POLITICAL TRACTS, partly relating to France and Germany; 2nd half of 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old shelfmark '5[52]' almost cancelled in fourth spine compartment; signature in pencil 'Tom. CVIII' in upper righ... British Library
creatorOf DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND RELAZIONI relating to the peace congress in Cologne during the Thirty Years War and the mission of Cardinal Legate Marzio Ginetti; 1636-1641. Italian and Latin. Copies. In 1635 Cardinal Ginetti was appointed by Urban VIII ... British Library
creatorOf REGISTER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF MILAN; 1597. Latin and Italian. Certified copy, for the archiepiscopal chancellor Giovanni Jacopo Bonetti (f. 141v). Correspondence and edicts of the Archbishops of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Borromeo (1560-1584) and Gaspare ... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION relating to the Dispute between Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri and the ambassadors of France, Spain, Venice, and the Empire; 1674-1675. Italian. Copies. The collection contains various papers relating the dispute between Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi... British Library
creatorOf Piccolomini, Alessandro, Bishop of Montalcino and Pienza, 1505-1563. Alessandro Piccolomini nomination, 1546. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf FALCONIERI LETTER-BOOK: Letters to Ottavio Falconieri, abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole, as papal internuncio at Brussels (Oct. 1672 -3 Nov. 1674); 1673-1676. Italian, and French. Mostly autograph and in cipher. The collection includes letters sent to... British Library
creatorOf DIARIO OF MARCELLO ALBERINI (1521-1535); 18th cent. Italian. Marcello Alberini, the son of a Roman citizen, began writing his account of the events surrounding the sack of Rome of 1527 on 1 January 1547, for the benefit of his children. Alberini comb... British Library
creatorOf PRAYER BOOK; late 17th or early 18th cent. Russian Church Slavonic. Prayers, mostly by St. Ephraim, the Syrian, ‘for those who wish to take up arms against the self-will which originates in their passions and pleasures’. The headings are: ‘Lamentatio... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE OF CONSTANTINOPLE; 17th cent. Italian. Imperfect. Description of the Sultan's Palace and life in the Seraglio followed by a brief account of religious customs of Turkish people. Inc. (f. 2) '...ancora. Questa è posta nel piano d'un Cortile ... British Library
creatorOf ANTONIO JOSÉ DEL GIUDICE Y PADACODA: Memoirs of France as Ambassador of Philip V of Spain; 1719-1733. Italian. Copy. Antonio Josè del Giudice y Padacoda, Duke of Giovinazzo and Prince of Cellamare, was the Spanish Ambassador at Paris in 1715-1718. In... British Library
creatorOf Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651. Istoria di Maria Stuarda, Regina di Francia, e di Scotia : manuscript translation of a portion of La cour sainte, [ca. 1750]. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Tommasi, Benedetto. Il caso celebre di Sciacca : manuscript, 1795 / scritto da Benedetto Tommasi. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of religious, political and literary tracts, poems, and letters relating to Naples, Corsica, Florence, Poland, Sweden, and Austria; 15th cent-1794. Italian and Latin, Greek, and English. Copies, partly autograph or signed. Th... British Library
creatorOf LEONARDO QUERINI: Papers relating to Candia; circa 1587. Italian. Copy. The MS. contains a detailed geographical description of the island, dated 1 May 1587, and two other short papers provided by the Venetian engineer and technical advisor Leonardo ... British Library
creatorOf PIETRO DE NORES: Account of the Carafa War, Book i; after 1644. Italian. Copy. The detailed account of the so-called Carafa war between Pope Paul IV Carafa and Spain (1555-1557) and its consequences is a work by Pietro De Nores, son of Giason, the ex... British Library
creatorOf LIFE OF CARDINAL MAZARIN, originally composed between 1653 and 1661. Italian. The text is a version of the so-called 'Anonymous of Turin', first published from a manuscript in the University Library of Turin by L. Chiala, Revista Contemporanea, vol. ..., 1653-1661 British Library
creatorOf CHRONICLE OF VENICE, from its origins to 1485; 18th cent. Italian. Inc. (f. 2) 'Historia di Venetia, sino ad Agostino Barbarigo, di tutto quello occorssi al Senato Veneto, sin l'anno 1485', expl. (f. 186) 'furono cominciati ad elegersi li 23 Inquisit... British Library
creatorOf Papers and tracts relating to the League between Venice, Pius V, and Philip II of Spain against the Turks in 1571; late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian and Latin. Copies. Another collection relating to the league in Add. 8314. Table of contents by a la... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATED TO THE CONSPIRACY OF MACCHIA; 1701-1702. Italian, Spanish and Latin. A collection of legal papers relating to the proceedings against the Neapolitan nobles who in 1701 conspired against the Spanish monarchy in favour of Archduke Charle... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of historical accounts of conclaves and tracts relating to the Papacy and the German Empire; circa 1503-1560. Latin and Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) account of the conclave for the election of Adrian VI, 1522, in Latin (ff. 2-1... British Library
creatorOf URBANO CERRI: Relazione of the state of the Catholic religion under Innocent XI; circa 1679. Italian. Copy. At the time Cerri was Secretary to the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide between 1675-1679, and wrote his relazione at the request of Pope I... British Library
creatorOf RELACIÓN OF SPAIN; 17th cent. Spanish. Copy. A miscellaneous collection of anonymous tracts, compiled to provide an account of Spain and primarily Madrid. Title (f. 1) 'Relacion breve de España, casa y corte de su Magestad y villa de Madrid, fecha el... British Library
referencedIn Vol. XCI (ff. 352). 25 Sept.-13 Nov. 1819.includes:f. 1 William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to Lady Liverpool: 1819. ff. 3, 118 Charles Chetwynd Chetwynd Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot of Hensol; Viceroy of Ireland: Correspondence with the 2n... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS IN PIEDMONT; late 13th cent.-1731. Italian and Latin. Copies. Imperfect. Papers relating to the controversies over ecclesiastical benefits between the Papacy and the House of Savoy assembled and distributed f... British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Descrizzione geografica della Germania : manuscript, [1791-1800]. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
creatorOf LIVES of Italian heretics; early 18th cent. Italian. This anonymous text provides detailed accounts of the lives of Francesco Canonici (1609-1652), Marc Antonio Dominis (1566-1624) and Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695), together with an account of... British Library
creatorOf MARCO ANTONIO ALTIERI: Li Nuptiali; late 15th-early 16th cent. Italian. Copy, late 16th cent. Dialogue on wedding rituals in Renaissance Rome by the Roman officer and historian Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532); cf. DBI, 2 (1960), pp. 560-561. The di... British Library
creatorOf CESARE MAGALOTTI: Journal of the nunziatura to France of Cardinal Francesco Barberini; 1633. Italian. Copy. Journal of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, legatus a latere to France of Pope Urban VIII 17 March -20 Dec. 1625, written by Barberini's secreta... British Library
creatorOf Siena (Italy). Consilium generale. Consilium generale grant of plenary power, 1482. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf DECIO AZZOLINI (attributed): Aphorisms on the conclave for the election of Clement IX; 1667. Italian. The aphorisms were traditionally attributed to Cardinal Decio Azzolini the Younger, interim Secretary of State under Innocent X (1644-1655) and Clem... British Library
referencedIn ORIGINAL letters to John Stuart, Earl and Marquis of Bute, Ambassador to Spain, from English Ministers abroad; 21 April, 1795-16 Oct. 1796. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Paper; ff. 232. Harrowby sale-cat., lot 46. Folio.Hon Robert ... British Library
creatorOf Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1368-1437. Emperor Sigismund appointment, 1432. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf DONATO GIANNOTTI: 'Della republica fiorentina'; circa 1531-1538. Italian. Copy, late 17th cent. Historical account of the Republic of Florence (1527-1530) by the political writer Donato Giannotti (1492-1573), dedicated to his patron Cardinal Niccolò ... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, in prose and verse, relating to France; 1574-1589. French, and Latin. Copies. Satirical verses and other papers relating to the reign of Henry III (1574-1589), together with contemporary copies of about 10 letters of the period.... British Library
creatorOf CARAFA LETTER-BOOK: Register of dispatches to Cardinal Francesco Barberini from Pier Luigi Carafa as papal nuncio to Cologne (15 June 1624 -20 Nov. 1634); 1631-1642. Italian. Register copies. Dispatches for the year 1631 on ff. 12-72, for the year 1... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni and original letters relating to Queen Christina of Sweden and her life in Rome; circa 1654-1698. Italian, Latin, and French. Partly autograph. The MS. contains autograph letters of Queen Christina (ff. 32, 64, 180-182... British Library
creatorOf TRACTS relating to the commerce and agriculture of Tuscany; circa 1766-1768. Italian. Copies. The tracts relate to the survey of the economic conditions of Tuscany promoted in Nov. 1766 by Grand Duke Leopold I of Hapsburg Lorraine (1765-1790). The fi... British Library
creatorOf RODOLFO PIO DI CARPI: Correspondence as papal nuncio to France; 1535-1537. Italian. Copies. A collection of 301 dispatches relating to France and the papal nunziatura of Rodolfo Pio di Carpi, bishop of Faenza (1500-1564). The dispatches are dated 4 F... British Library
creatorOf SILVIO DE PAULIS: Inventory of the archive of the Castel Sant'Angelo; 1610. Latin. The Archive at Castel Sant'Angelo or Archivum Arcis was established during the papacy of Clement VIII (1592-1605), even though the papal collection of privileges, roya... British Library
creatorOf PONTIFICAL OF THE MARONITE CHURCH; 1723. Syriac, Arabic and Latin. The Pontifical was written in 1683 in the Patriarchal Monastery of St. Mary, Kanubin, Mount Lebanon, by Stephen Doueihi, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch (1670-1704). As explained in the... British Library
creatorOf Gian Giacomo Caroldo: Conspiracy of Baiamonte Tiepolo; circa 1520. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. The text is an extract from the chronicle of Venice compiled by Gian Giacomo Caroldo, Secretary of the Council of Ten, circa 1520. Caroldo gives a detaile... British Library
creatorOf LORENZO DI SAN LORENZO [I.E. LORENZO COZZA]: Account of the deposition of Jacobus Petrus II, Catholic Maronite Patriarch of Antioch; circa 1714. Italian and Latin. Copy. Father Lorenzo Cozza of San Lorenzo, later Cardinal Lorenzo Cozza (el. 1726), wa... British Library
creatorOf LIFE, WILL AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO CARDINAL GIULIO MAZARIN; 2nd half of 17th cent. Italian. Copies, 18th cent. The anonymous life of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin (1602-1661) is a version of the so-called 'Anonymous of Turin'. However it lacks the pre... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Father Nicolò Ridolfi, the burial place of St. Peter and the League against the Turks signed in 1571 by Venice, Spain, and the Holy See, during the papacy of Pius V; circa 1570-1644. Italian a... British Library
creatorOf LELIO MARRETTI: Ricordi Politici, vol. ii; circa 1610-1611. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti (1530-1617), a nobleman of Siena and a member (from 1557) of the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena (with the name of Attonito), was Prior of Santa M... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of papers relating to the history of Rome from 1378 to 1766, chronologically arranged; 17th -18th cent. Latin and Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: accounts of the conclaves of antipopes Clement VII (1378; art. 1), Benedict XIII (1394; a... British Library
creatorOf LIVES of the Dukes of Urbino, and Accounts of the disputed right of succession to the duchy; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. The MS. contains: -(a) art. 1, ff. 1-88v, an anonymous life of Federico II da Montefeltro (1422-1482); -(b) art. 2, ff. 89-11... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Switzerland, Rome, Florence, the Valtelline, Spain, France, the Council of Trent, Venice, Padua, and some moral and religious issues; circa 1562-1621. Italian. Copies.... British Library
creatorOf INSTRUCTIONS TO KINGS AND PRINCES on how to conduct themselves and govern their countries; 1740. Italian and Latin. Copy. The anonymous treatise mentions the succession of Charles of Gonzaga Nevers to Vincenzo Gonzaga in 1627 (f. 4); Philip IV of Spa... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI BATTISTA RICCHIERI: Sonnets; 1746. Italian. Copy by Antonio Francesco Pizzorni. Collection of sonnets by the Genoese poet Giovanni Battista Ricchieri (d. after 1759) in the hand of Abbot Antonio Francesco Pizzorni. Ricchieri was a member of ... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI CIBO RECCO: History of Genoa; 1550-1556. Italian. Copy, mid-18th cent. The present text is an incomplete transcript of Giovanni Cibo Recco's History of Genoa, 1550-1570. Cibo Recco wrote the account circa 1570 at the request of the jurisprud... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE AND LETTER relating to Spain, Milan, Naples and Sicily; circa 1555-1653. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. ii), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CIX' in upper right corner of f. i: identifiable with Mattei MS. 553 (vol. 109 o... British Library
creatorOf "RACCONTO dell' infelice morte di D. Colantonio Brancaccio [executed at Naples]. Dialogo tra D. Cesare e D. Francesco," forming an introduction to a longer "Racconto delle dissolutezze de' e specialmente quello di Sant' Arcangelo a Bajano"; the said ..., 1797 British Library
creatorOf DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND RELAZIONI RELATING TO THE PEACE CONGRESS OF COLOGNE; 1636-1639. Italian. Copies. Compilation relating to the diplomatic mission of the legatus a latere Cardinal Marzio Ginetti. Ginetti was appointed in 1635 by Urban VIII t... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political treatises, discourses, satires and other papers relating to Rome, Genoa, France, Germany, Tuscany, and Sweden; circa 1613-1652. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) three treatises (arts. 1-3) relating to amb... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI AND HISTORICAL TREATISES relating to France, Savoy, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Spain, Valtelline, Naples, Parma and Piacenza; circa 1546-1670. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (ff. i and i verso), added later. Old shelfmark in ink '14[2]' in... British Library
creatorOf DESCRIPTIONS of trials and executions of heretics and other people condemned by the Roman Court from the papacy of Gregory XIII (1572-1585) to that of Clement XI (1700-1721); circa 1572-1723, 1747. Italian. Copy, mid 18th cent. The MS. also includes:... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI, LETTERS, AND TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP RELATING TO CORFU; 1716-1717. Italian, partly transl. The collection relates to the siege of Corfu in Aug. 1716 and is partly translated from French. The MS. is entitled (ff. 2, 72) 'Assedio e Liberazione di ... British Library
creatorOf ACCOUNTS OF THE CONCLAVES for the election of Alexander VII, on 7 April 1655, and Innocent X, on 15 Sept. 1644; 1655, 1644. Italian. Copies. Ownership inscription (upper margin of f. 1) with note of acquisition: 'Di Bartolomeo Antinori comprato in fi... British Library
creatorOf CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Possibly a draft of the collection catalogue in Add. 8795, as the lay-out of the text in the two MSS. is very s... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, letters and historical accounts relating to the Papacy, France, Poland, Russia, Spain, Genoa, Malta, Turkey, Portugal, England, Scotland, the German Empire, Flanders, Naples, and Milan; circa 1538-1585. ... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of letters, relazioni, and papal instructions relating to the Carafa war and to the papacies of Paul IV (1555-1559) and Sixtus IV (1471-1484); circa 1472-1568. Italian and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The first part of the MS. (ff. 3-97v, 1... British Library
referencedIn Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material : 299 items, 1809-1822 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
creatorOf INSTRUZIONI DIVERSE: Instructions to Papal nuncios, cardinals and governors on how to govern and conduct themselves; circa 1582-1591. Italian. Copy. The present MS. is listed in P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, IV (1989), p. 68a. Owned by Frederick N... British Library
creatorOf PAPAL CHIROGRAPHS granted to the Governors of Rome; 1514-1771. Latin and Italian. Copies. The MS. also includes some 18th-cent correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Governors of Rome, mainly correspondence (ff. 225v-259v) of Monsignor... British Library
referencedIn 1. "DE CAUSIS proprietatum elementorum." An anonymous treatise, in Latin, on the four elements, in two books, beg. "Quoniam autem jam nos complevimus." f. 3. 2. Liber mineralium, quod est, de lapidibus," in five books, beg. De commixtione et coagulat... British Library
referencedIn CATALOGUE Of the Library of Printed Books of the same Earl of Guilford ; arranged alphabetically under names of authors. Large Folio. [16,182.] British Library
creatorOf Prodromus, Theodore. [Theodōrou tou Prodromou Exēgēsis eis tous en tais hierais despotikais heortais ektethentas kanonas para tōn hagiōn kai sophōn poiētōn Kosma kai Iōannou Damaskēnou]. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf COLLECTION OF POEMS. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly printed. Mostly verse, often with topical or satirical reference to political events and personalities in Rome and Tuscany in the last three decades of the 18th century. Title (f. iii) 'Poesie di... British Library
creatorOf JACOB EMERIX: Treatise on the Sacra Rota Romana; late 17th cent. Latin. Copy. Jacob Emerix de Mathiis (1626-1696) was Auditor of the Rota from 1668 and was elected Dean in 1687. His treatise relates to the procedures followed in the Sacra Romana Rota... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI OF CONSTANTINOPLE, ETC.; 1637-1745. Italian and French. Mostly copies. Partly imperfect. Each item numbered later with a roman numeral at beginning. Two tables of contents (ff. 1, 141). The MS. is described by Foligno, anno 6, t. xi (1906),... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONI and other historical paper relating to Venice, the Holy See, Germany, Spain and France; circa 1558-1646. Italian. Copies. Armorial bookplate (front pastedown) of 'Marius Marefuschus': for Marefoschi's bookplate see Bragaglia, vol. ii, no. 5... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, France, and the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza; circa 1675-1752. Italian and Latin. Copies and drafts. The MS. includes: -(a) relazione and letter (arts. 1, 3) relating to the clergy in It... British Library
creatorOf A MISCELLANY OF RIME BY ANDREA CORNARO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA ZAPPI AND OTHERS; 1598, 1738. Italian. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford (front pastedown); his shelfmark 'L/20/D' at top left corner of bookplate. '175' in pencil in top left corner ... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO THE CONCLAVES WHICH ELECTED ALEXANDER VII, CLEMENT IX, CLEMENT X, AND INNOCENT XI AND ON THE CARDINALS CREATED UNDER THEIR PAPACIES AND THOSE OF ALEXANDER VIII AND INNOCENT XII; 1655-1699. Italian and Latin. Copies. A... British Library
creatorOf Paul III, Pope, 1468-1549. Pope Paul III bull, 1534. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf FERNANDO CORRÊA DE LACERDA: Catastrophe de Portugal; circa 1669. Italian transl. The Italian translation of a polemic work on the reign and deposition of King Alphonso VI of Portugal written in Portuguese by Dom Fernando Corrêa de Lacerda, Bishop of ... British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Orvieto border arbitration, 1486. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf CARAFA LETTER-BOOK; 1713-1717. Italian and Latin. Copies. Register of letters from Pier Luigi Carafa, Archbishop of Larissa, to Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci de' Calboli, Secretary of State of Clement XI (1700-1721), relating to the Apostolic nunciature... British Library
creatorOf RELAZIONE OF THE GRASCIA; mid 18th cent (see watermark on f. v: coat-of-arms, similar to Heawood, no. 803: Subiaco 1761-1763). Italian. Copy. Anonymous Relazione of the Grascia, the board in charge of the quality and price of provisions in the Papal ... British Library
creatorOf F. M. [FILIPPO MATTEI ?]: Demonstrations of plane Geometry based on works by Vito Caravelli; 1787. Italian. Autograph. The MS. contains sixteen problems of plane geometry, elaborated from works by the Neapolitan abbot and mathematician Vito Caravelli... British Library
creatorOf GIOVANNI ANTONIO THOMASI: Discorso sopra la vita del Cardinale Di Luca; circa 1683-1689. Italian and Latin. Copy. Life of Cardinal Giovanni Battista De Luca (1614-1683). Title (f. 1) 'Discorso sopra la vita Dell' Eminentissimo Signore Cardinal De Luc... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of pasquinades and satires current at the elections of the Popes, together with two Lives of Cardinals Mazzarino and Alberoni; 1653-1721. Italian. Copy. Included in the MS. are: poems relating to the death of Clement XI and the following C... British Library
creatorOf Statutes of Adria; 16th-17th cent. Latin and Italian. Mostly copies. Statutes of the town of Adria issued by Leonello d'Este, Marquess of Ferrara (1441-1450), in 1442 (ff. 15-80). These statutes are followed by: (a) later edicts of Leonello and h... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, relazioni and letters relating mostly to the history of the Church and political and family affairs in 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1557-1710. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies and original draft... British Library
creatorOf Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494. Ferdinand I privileges, 1461. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL CONTROVERSIES between the House of Savoy and the Papacy in the 1720s and early 1730s; 1719-1732. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly printed. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilf... British Library
referencedIn SHEFFIELD PARK PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. ii+167). Letters and papers of Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, and his sister, Lady Charlotte Lindsay; 1806-1849. 1. ff. 1-50. Booksellers' bills and letters sent to Lord Guilford, together with his notes on book..., 1806-1849 British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Sammelband of printed documents and manuscripts concerning public health measures taken to protect Rome from the Marseilles plague, 1720-1723. University of California, Los Angeles
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political tracts, letters, relazioni, and conclave accounts relating to Portugal, Turkey, the Papacy, France, the German Empire, Venice, Persia, Poland, and Tunisia; circa 1544-1576. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art.... British Library
creatorOf ALESSANDRO SFORZA, CONTE DI SANTA FIORA: Testament; 1629. Latin and Italian. Certified copy. Will of Alessandro Sforza, Count of Santa Fiora and Duke of Segni, followed (ff. 23-33v) by testimonial of his identity and of his right to use the title and... British Library
creatorOf GIROLAMO MARCIANO: Description of Otranto and its environs; 1656 British Library
creatorOf Gregory XIV, Pope, 1535-1591. Pope Gregory XIV bull, 1594. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf ACCOUNT of the captivity of Pius VI and Pius VII; circa 1809. Italian. Copy. The account was written by an eye witness, who accompanied Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) on his journey from Rome to Fontainebleau and Savona as a prisoner of Napoleon I (1804-1... British Library
creatorOf DESPATCHES TO FRANCESCO MOROSINI FROM THE MOREA; 1690-1693. Italian. Copies, 18th-cent. Despatches sent to Doge Francesco Morosini (1688-1694) relating to the war in the Morea between 18 Dec. 1690 (date of second despatch from Corfu, f. 5) and 9 June... British Library
referencedIn DRAFTS OF LETTERS from Lord Wellesley and the Government Secretaries to various persons, viz. Hugh Cleghorn; Hon. Frederic North, Governor of Ceylon; Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bussorah ; Major Beatson; R. Patton, Governor of St. Helena; J. S. Smith... British Library
creatorOf GUIDO GUALTIERI: Ephemerides Sixti Papae V; 1585-1588. Latin. Copy, 17th cent. Diary of the internal affairs of Church States between April 1585 and June 1588, recorded by Guido Gualtieri, Secretary to Sixtus V. Title (f. 1) 'Sixti Quinti Pontificis ... British Library
creatorOf Correspondence of Sultan Murad III and Bosnian officials relating to the borders of Dalmatia; 1575-1591. Italian translation. Collection of official copies of correspondence relating to the borders between Venetian and Turkish dominions in Dalmatia... British Library
creatorOf FRANCESCO MARIA ACCINELLI: History of Genoa, vol. iii; 1776. Italian. Copy. The MS. contains the third volume, covering the years 1751-1776, of the annals of the history of Genoa from its foundation to 1776 written by the Genoese priest, historian an... British Library
creatorOf 'IL PELOPONESSO, ò vero le sette Provincie di quel Regno descritte da Pausania, illustrate, e ridotte al moderno dal Signor Dottore Alessandro Pini Fiorentino', A.D. 1703. A description, with two maps, of the Morea during its brief reoccupation by Ve..., 1703 British Library
creatorOf Relazioni of Genoa: account of wars fought between Genoa and France over Corsica after its capture by the French in 1553; circa 1575. Italian. Copy. Title (f. 1) 'Raggionamento fra due cittadini di Genova[quan]do fu presa la Corsica con un bellissi..., 1570-1580 British Library
creatorOf Collection of papers relating to the Savorgnan and Colloredo families, Ludovico Birago and Vincenzo Locadelli; after 1566. Italian and Latin. Copies. All the texts concern personal disputes and related legal proceedings. The miscellany is preced... British Library
creatorOf Lamberto, Pietro, Bishop of Caserta. Pietro Lamberto legal decision, 1535. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf NICOLA DELLA TUCCIA, Chronicle of Viterbo for the years 1169-1473; 17th cent. Italian. Copy. The MS. contains the chronicle of Viterbo written between 1417-1473 by the local historian Nicola Della Tuccia (1400 -circa 1473). Nicola divided his histor... British Library
creatorOf Domenico Mocenigo: Letters to the Doge of Venice Francesco Morosini; 1690-1692. Italian. Copies. The forty-six letters are the reports by Mocenigo as comander general of the Venetian army operating in Rumania from 6 Dec. 1690 to 1 January 1692. I... British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Introduz[ione] alla geograf[ia], astronom[ia] : manuscript, [1700?]. Princeton University Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of papers relating to ecclesiastical affairs of the Roman Court; 1767-1769. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Miscellaneous edicts, letters and memoranda mostly relating to disputes between the Holy See and European powers on the... British Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. Diocese of Arezzo (Italy). Diocese of Arezzo nomination, 1594. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf VISCONTI LETTER-BOOK and MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and tracts relating to the Papacy, Spain, Venice, Cyprus, and the League against the Turks during the papacy of Pius V (1566-1572); circa 1550-1572. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. ... British Library
creatorOf MARIN SANUDO THE YOUNGER: Chronicle of Venice and Lives of the Doges from the origins to 1428; 18th cent. Italian. Imperfect. Sanudo compiled his chronicle around 1522-1523 and continued to insert additional notes up to 1530. After a brief introducto... British Library
referencedIn Vol. XX, Jan. 1819 -Jan. 1822.Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Maitland, GCB; Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands: Correspondence with Sir W. A'Court: 1815-1822.: Mostly signed.Ionian Islands: Correspondence of the High Commissioner, Sir T. Mai... British Library
creatorOf Ceylon, 1796-1798 British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to the Papacy and its relations with Poland, Venice, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain; 1530-1596. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes: -(a) summary (art. 1, ff. 1-81v) of negot... British Library
creatorOf HISTORICAL COMPENDIUM OF THE LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS AND POPES; 1585. Italian. The MS., which is dated (f. 135) 28 Oct. 1585, contains a chronological, historical summary of the lives of the Roman emperors, popes and other prominent men from Juli... British Library
creatorOf Guilford Papers, 1791-1833 British Library
creatorOf DIARY of Francesco Mucantio; 1589-1592. Latin and Italian. Copy, 17th cent. Francesco Mucantio was Master of Ceremonies at the Papal Court. His diary covers the papacies from Sixtus V to Innocent IX. Information on Mucantio in Bibliografia Romana. No... British Library
creatorOf CURIOSISSIME PARTICULARITÀ DE VERIDICHI SUCCESSI DELLA CITTÀ, E REGNO DI NAPOLI; late 15th cent. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. A concise chronicle of the kingdom of Naples and Sicily from Frederick II to Joanna II of Anjou-Durazzo. Title (f. 1) 'Curiosis... British Library
creatorOf ROGER BACON: collection of scientific, mathematical and alchemical works; 3rd quarter of 14th cent. Latin. Principal contents: -(1) ff. 2-10v. A version of part of the 'Compendium Philosophiae', vol. iii, book i, 'Communia Naturalium', inc. 'Ostensu... British Library
creatorOf NICOLA SIGNORILI: 'Descriptio urbis Romae eiusque excellentiae'; circa 1425. Latin. Copy, 18th cent. Relazione of Rome offered to Pope Martin V (1417-1431) by Nicola Signorili, secretary to the Magistrate of Rome. Other MSS. copies in Archivio Colonn... British Library
creatorOf COLLECTION of satirical poems and papers circulated in Rome during the pontificate of Clement XIII, and during the conclaves for the elections of Clement XIV and Pius VI; 1758-1775. Italian and Latin. Copies. Included in the MS. are: poems and sonnet... British Library
creatorOf GIAMBATTISTA DI GIULIO CICALA: Commentaries on the war between the Republic of Genoa, the Duke of Savoy and the King of France in 1625; 1629. Italian. Copy. Giambattista Cicala di Giulio, Senator of the Genoese Republic in 1637 and Governor of Corsic... British Library
creatorOf IPPOLITO CAMILLO GUIDI: Relazione of Spain and of the Count-Duke of Olivares; circa 1643. Italian. Copy. A relazione of Spain in the 1620s focused on the life and role played in Spanish politics by Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, prime mini... British Library
creatorOf Catholic Church. Diocese of Arezzo (Italy). Diocese of Arezzo nomination, 1666. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, and Portugal; circa 1634-1640. Italian, Spanish and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes (arts. 7-8) three texts relating to oneiromancy or dream interpretation. Tw... British Library
creatorOf DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE, 1648-1675; late 17th cent. Italian. The MS. gives a historical account of the intense period of diplomatic and military activity in western Europe which followed the conclusion of the Thirty Years’ W... British Library
creatorOf CARAFA LETTER-BOOK: Register of dispatches to and from Pier Luigi Carafa as papal nuncio to Cologne (15 June 1624 -20 Nov. 1634); 1625-1634. Italian, French, and Latin. Copies, partly autograph. Most dispatches were written by or addressed to Cardin... British Library
creatorOf TOMMASO AREZZO: Relazione of the Catholic Church in Russia; 1806-1807. Italian, French and Latin. Copy. Tommaso Arezzo, titular Archbishop of Seleucia, was named nuncio to Russia in 1802, when diplomatic relations between Pope Pius VII and Emperor Al... British Library
creatorOf IPPOLITO CAMILLO GUIDI: Relazione of Spain and Account of the Fall of the Count-Duke of Olivares; circa 1643. Italian, and Spanish. Copy. Two relazioni of Spain by the Dominican Friar Ippolito Camillo Guidi concerning Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of ... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS relating to ecclesiastical affairs of the Papacy (Holy Congregation de Propaganda Fide); 1642-1699. British Library
referencedIn "WALDERSHARE Library, Inventory, 1820." A Catalogue of the Earl of Guilford's Library of Printed Books at Waldershare Park, Kent. At fol. 86 is a memorandum in the handwriting of the Earl himself; dated 30 Aug. 1827. Folio. [16,573.], 1820-1827 British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical treatises, relazioni and letters relating to Rome, France, Venice, Spain, England, and Savoy; circa 1593-1672. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. XCIV' in uppe... British Library
creatorOf CHRONICLES OF FLANDERS, GERMANY, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND NORTH AFRICA (MAGHREB) 1509-1667; late 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Imperfect. Short chronicles relating historical and religious events of the countries. Notably the chronicle of the Ottoman Empir... British Library
creatorOf CASALI NOTE-BOOK and other papers; circa 1624-1627, 1648, 1527. Italian and Latin. Partly autograph. Collection of notes and letter-drafts by Giovanni Battista Casali (1578-1648), camerarius of S. Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome, ecclesiastical histor... British Library
creatorOf PAPERS RELATING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS IN PIEDMONT; 1393-1732. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly printed (f. 293 and following blank). Papers relating to the controversies between the Papacy and the House of Savoy over ecclesiastical benefits in t... British Library
creatorOf TRACTS, AND LETTER RELATIVE TO THE CLAIM OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY TO THE KINGDOM OF CYPRUS; circa 1633. Italian and Latin. The three tracts also relate to the rights of the Dukes of Savoy to the title of Royal Highness. A detailed list of contents at be... British Library
creatorOf CARLO RUZZINI: Despatches from Constantinople; 1719-1720. Italian. Copies. The MS. contains the 44 dispatches sent to the Doge Giovanni II Corner during Ruzzini's second appointment as Ambasciatore straordinario at Constantinople. Inc. (f. 2) 'Sereni... British Library
creatorOf ANTONIO TREVISAN: Collection of papers relating to Candia 1182-1671; late 17th-early 18th cent. Italian. A collection of historical papers, administrative lists, governmental decrees, and peace treaties put together by the public notary Antonio Trevi... British Library
creatorOf GIUSEPPE VELLA: Esposto di Verità; circa 1798. Italian. Copy. A plea sent to Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, by Abbot Giuseppe Vella. The Abbot had been imprisoned after he had been accused of forgery by Alfonso Ajroldi, archbishop of Eraclea. Ajroldi ... British Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827,. Libro di diversi segreti partenenti in molte cose che soglieno abbisognare : manuscript, [17--]. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
creatorOf North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827. Arabic and Turkish tables of conjugation, 1825. Historical Society of Pennsylvania
creatorOf POPE HONORIUS III LETTER-BOOK and MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, orations, relazioni, and tracts relating to the Papacy, the Council of Trent, the German Empire, Austria, Spain, Venice, and the League against the Turks; circa 1216, 1532-1570. L... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Genoa, Spain, France, Venice, the war of Castro, Savoy, and Portugal; circa 1628-1643. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LXXXV' i... British Library
creatorOf MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, Sweden, Tunisia, Alsace, Venice, Spain, and Monaco; circa 1641-1671. Italian, French and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 7) the account of the trial of the Milanese doctor and alch... British Library
creatorOf BERNARDO REBUFFO GIUSTINIANI: Dialogue between Philip II and the Duke of Alba concerning Genoa, with other papers relating to Genoa; circa 1575. Italian. Copy, 17th cent. Sacked by Spanish troops in 1522 and captured by the French in 1527, Genoa was ... British Library
creatorOf TRACT RELATING TO THE BANKING SYSTEM IN NAPLES; circa 1761. Italian. A manual concerning the banking system in Naples. Include are detailed descriptions of credit certificates and of contracts of loans on pledges and guidelines for double-entry bookk... British Library